Design and Deploy web sites with Macromedia® Dreamweaver® MX 2004 and Contribute® 3: Training from the Source

Chapter 9. Using Template Parameters

If you completed the Lesson 8 exercises that covered optional regions, you already saw template parameters in action. When a Macromedia Contribute or Dreamweaver user accesses the Template Properties dialog box and changes the display state of an optional region from false to true (or vice versa), the value changed is a template parameter. But enabling or disabling an optional region is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what you can do with template parameters. One of the most useful applications for template parameters—demonstrated in this chapter—is to make an attribute editable within an otherwise locked tag and allow it to be changed within Contribute.

Template parameters are set at design-time ...