I come from years of Dreamweaver development and one thing that made development easier, was an ability to create multiple templates with un-editable areas that were the same on all pages and editable areas that I could customize for each individual page.
Is there any way to do something like this in WIX? If not, how do people work around this?
As an example: You create a layout for a products page (not a shopping cart, just static) and you make copies of that page for other product pages. 6 months later your customer says - listen, I want to modify the layout a bit to have this on the right instead of left and I want photos before brochure… If I had a Dreamweaver template, I would just modify the template and all of the pages would update. But on Wix (at least from what I can see), I would have to modify each product page…
Is that correct or am I missing a really cool feature somewhere?
Yes - you can make your own templates. There isn’t an easy way to have it listed in wix the way wix has their templates, but you can make an account and build a site and save it as a template.
Hi @brett-haralson , I think we are speaking about different types of templates. I think you are talking about creating a whole-site template, similar to what WIX offers to end users.
I’m talking about creating page templates, similar to what Dreamweaver does.
I guess an easier way of speaking about it in WIX terms would be a feature Wix calls “Show on all pages”. This creates an element within a page that you don’t have to manually add to every page, but it automatically shows up on every page and you only need to edit it once and it updates everywhere…
What I’m looking for is the same thing, only instead of “Show on all pages”, i’d like “Show on THESE pages” and I’d like to choose which pages to show it on. Actually, now that I have formulated this better, this would be a good #featurerequest for editor. This could look like a menu where you check off the pages where you want the element seen or, perhaps, you would create logical groups of pages and you can assign an element to a group…
