What Is An Overall Page Layout?

Pages in Actinic are built from two main elements: The 'Overall Page Layout' (also known as an 'outer layout') and the 'Inner Layout'.

Outer/overall layouts are described in more depth in Choosing Overall Page Layouts.

The overall page layout contains all the design elements that do not change from page to page. These include:

·      The content within the <head> </head> tags (including page title and meta tags)

·      Logo and navigation elements that go across the top of each page

·      Navigational elements that go down the side of each page.

The inner layout then inserts the actual page content (also known as the page bulk) into each page.

The Dreamweaver plug-in allows you to create and manage your overall page layout in Dreamweaver. It doesn't handle the inner layout beyond controlling where the inner layout is going to go.

If you want to edit other layouts in Dreamweaver, you can do this by clicking the 'Edit Layout in Dreamweaver' button that is on the layout code toolbar within Actinic. More details are in Editing any Layout in Dreamweaver.