Snippets and Templates

Lesson ten discusses the importance of how to maximize the rate of efficiency when creating/styling a website in Dreamweaver. The two important concepts used to achieve this are snippets and templates. Using snippets and templates allow a website creator to make or edit pre-existing style elements that can be reused throughout multiple pages and sites (projects).

"snippets make it possible you to add any piece of code to a common library, where you can reuse it by simply dragging and dropping it into the page" (Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 - Digital Classroom)

I relate snippets in Dreamweaver to what creating a color swatch in Photoshop is like. Snippets can be created or edited as a permanent element that you can use throughout the Dreamweaver program when a creator is working on projects. Using these snippets is a great advantage because they allow you to one, keep consistency in style/design work and two, work faster.

Templates are similar. From what I understand in the text, templates are (for a beginner) better to choose from what the Dreamweaver program provides. These templates create a basic form for a creator's content and design to be built around. Once again, templates will come in handy when I want to keep my design constant from project to project or even within one project.

The text will be a great step by step reference to go back to when I start the next in-class activity.