Using stationery

Pages stored in the Stationeries folder become templates that can be reused as the basis for new pages in your Web site. Stationery is particularly useful if you want to keep the layout of your pages consistent when designing the site. A stationery page template can contain frame sets, images, stylesheets, and other information for repeated use.

To create stationery:

Prepare the page you want to use as stationery in Layout view in the document window and do one of the following:

Choose File > Save As, name the stationery file, locate the site folder you want to keep it in, choose Stationeries from the pop-up menu at the lower right (Windows) or at the top (Mac OS) of the Save As dialog box, and click Save.

Saving a stationery file

Drag the file from the Files tab in the site window into the Stationeries folder in the Extras tab of the site window. Click the Update button on the toolbar and save the site.

The file is saved in the Stationeries subfolder of the SiteName.data folder and displays in the Site Extras tab of the Objects palette and in the Extras tab in the site window.

To view the stationery properties, select the stationery file in the site window and view the properties in the File tab of the File Inspector. In Windows, you can also right-click the stationery file and choose the Show Properties command. In Mac OS, you can also use the Finder Get Info command to view the properties (Control-click the stationery file and choose Info in Finder).

To use a stationery page template:

Do one of the following:

In the Extras tab of the site window, double-click the desired stationery file in the Stationeries folder, and click Create to open a new, untitled document based on the stationery.

In the Objects palette, choose Stationeries from the pop-up menu at the bottom of the Site Extras tab (

). Drag the desired stationery icon to the Files tab in the site window or to the Navigation tab (select the site window and choose Site > View > Navigation) to where you want to add a child, sibling, or parent page in the site hierarchy. When you drag stationery to the Navigation tab, a vertical or horizontal bar appears at the top, bottom, and sides of the page icons indicating where a new page will appear in the hierarchy when you release the mouse.

Dragging a stationary icon to the Files tab.

GoLive creates a new page based on the stationery template. If you used the navigation hierarchy, the new page is stored in the New Files folder in the site. Use the File and Page tabs in the File Inspector to change the filename and title of the new page.

Advanced Page Layout > Using stationery