Hello everyone,
Over the past week or so I've learned about two serious issues with the templates.
I am working on solutions, but in the mean time please read about these issues so you can minimize their affects on your website.
Many thanks to VT template users and my FDI class participants for pointing me in the right direction on this.
Editable Regions > Child Title <Not Resolved> when Update Website in Dreamweaver
If you've been keeping up with the Template Change Log, then you know I changed the way Site Title works in the latest version of the templates.
Unfortunately this change triggers a serious bug when the Site Title in the master template is edited in design view.
I am working on a fix, but until then, please set up your websites by editing the master template in code view as detailed in the instructions.
Display problems in Internet Explorer due to broken links to ie.css and ie6.css
All of the templates use special Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for Internet Explorer, which has somewhat inconsistent support for CSS (though it's getting better).
The problem is that Dreamweaver is unable to dynamically change the links to these style sheets because they are in IE conditional comments. If you see flickering navigation links, improper image / list positioning, and other visual oddities on your website, then you've got broken links to the IE stylesheets.
You can work around this problem by using site root relative links for the IE stylesheets (and other template links if you want).
Here is the absolute link to the assets/css folder on the University Relations Website:
http://www.unirel.vt.edu/assets/css/And here is the site root relative link. Notice the domain name has just been replaced by a slash:
/assets/css/And here's how to change the stylesheet links, using the University Relations website as an example.
<!--[if IE]><link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/ie.css" type="text/css" media="all" /><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/ie6.css" type="text/css" media="all" /><![endif]-->You'll need to make this change to every template that you use for your website and perform a site wide template update.
More information about site root relative links is available on the Adobe website: