Editing and Saving Templates

Next, let’s make a small change to the Front Page template.

First, expand the "Templates" node of the Test Weblog hierarchy.



Double click the Front Page template.

The Template Editor opens with the Front Page template.

Scroll down to the bottom of the template and, just before the closing </BODY> tag, enter the text "Copyright Your Name <$CurrentDate format="yyyy"$>"

Note: <$CurrentDate$> is a built in template tag that prints the current date. The "format" attribute tells the tag to print the year of the current date. Thus, when the weblog is published, <$CurrentDate format="yyyy"$> will be replaced with the current year. i.e. 2004.

After entering the text, click the save button on the Template Editor’s toolbar.

Finally, publish the weblog and view the changes as described previously.

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