puchased web template-can’t get psd file to pull in

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castawaycafe
Apr 2, 2008
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Hello everyone,
I am really hoping someone can help me with this issue- I am a boxedart.com member and I am fairly decent with Dreamweaver, so I have been able to use the templates from this site to make some good websites, BUT when I really want to change the template and graphics, the instructions that i find on the website (and others) are just not helping. I go into the psd file folder that is located with the template, I open it up and open the template (.psd file) in photoshop. I make my changes, and then save it with the exact same name as the original, in the exact same folder- I even get the little warning about overwriting the existing file with the same name- but low and behold, I then open the html file in Dreamweaver to edit the actual content of the page and it reverts to the images folder instead of the psd file. Has anyone had any luck with this? Its driving me crazy and I am sure it is something simple!

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Paul Stevens
Apr 3, 2008
My suggestion would be re-link the image, or update link, close and open the dreamweaver file, check to make sure it is the right image your editing, ie path to file etc.
and if all of this doesn’t work, explore the re-link option, re create that part that tells dreamweaver /website(html) where to look for the psd file..

ideas anyway…

paul.

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Hello everyone,
I am really hoping someone can help me with this issue- I am a boxedart.com member and I am fairly decent with Dreamweaver, so I have been able to use the templates from this site to make some good websites, BUT when I really want to change the template and graphics, the instructions that i find on the website (and others) are just not helping. I go into the psd file folder that is located with the template, I open it up and open the template (.psd file) in photoshop. I make my changes, and then save it with the exact same name as the original, in the exact same folder- I even get the little warning about overwriting the existing file with the same name- but low and behold, I then open the html file in Dreamweaver to edit the actual content of the page and it reverts to the images folder instead of the psd file. Has anyone had any luck with this? Its driving me crazy and I am sure it is something simple!

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prowler
Apr 3, 2008
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Hello everyone,
I am really hoping someone can help me with this issue- I am a boxedart.com member and I am fairly decent with Dreamweaver, so I have been able to use the templates from this site to make some good websites, BUT when I really want to change the template and graphics, the instructions that i find on the website (and others) are just not helping. I go into the psd file folder that is located with the template, I open it up and open the template (.psd file) in photoshop. I make my changes, and then save it with the exact same name as the original, in the exact same folder- I even get the little warning about overwriting the existing file with the same name- but low and behold, I then open the html file in Dreamweaver to edit the actual content of the page and it reverts to the images folder instead of the psd file. Has anyone had any luck with this? Its driving me crazy and I am sure it is something simple!

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Actually, from your description it is about as simple as it gets. Note your own words:

"I make my changes, and then save it with the exact same name as the original, in the exact same folder"

And then:

"I then open the html file in Dreamweaver to edit the actual content of the page and it reverts to the images folder"

No, it’s not reverting to anything. Unless you changed the URL reference for the images, they are still pointing to the folder in your **site heirarchy** (not your template folder heirarchy) where the images are stored. When you edit the images in your template image folder you do nothing to alter the images in your site’s image folder (unless it is pointing to your templates image folder, a very unwise move).

For example, if your local boxedart template heirarchy looks like this:

c:\boxedart\templates\psd\

and your local site images folder heirarchy looks like this:

c:\mywebs\mysite\wwwroot\images\

and the image file is named MyImage.jpg, then your image reference will look like this (if the HTML pages are located in wwwroot)

<img src="images/MyImage.jpg" alt="This is MyImage." height="250" width="250" />

(NOTE: The closing " />" is only necessary for XHTML. A normal close is OK for HTML.)

When you edit the file in PS and then save it back to
c:\boxedart\templates\psd\, NOTHING has happened to the image stored in c:\mywebs\mysite\wwwroot\images\, and that is where the HTML image reference (in the <img> tag) is looking to find the image.

So, you fire up DM, preview the page, and… damn, it’s still the same! Well, yeah. Until you copy the changed version into the location pointed to by the <img> tag it will still be looking at the old image and loading it when the HTML for the page is parsed. That’s, umm… the way HTML works.

You say that you are "fairly decent with Dreamweaver." May I suggest that you become somewhat more familiar with the fundamental principles of HTML? Yes, Dreamweaver is a fine tool, and I like it a lot. If you want, you can achieve a good deal in WYSIWYG mode. However, as instances such as this illustrate, it is important to learn HTML if you’re going to do Web design even if you spend most of your time in Dreamweaver’s WYSIWYG Design Mode.

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Tacit
Apr 4, 2008
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I go into the psd file folder that is located with the
template, I open it up and open the template (.psd file) in photoshop. I make my changes, and then save it with the exact same name as the original, in the exact same folder- I even get the little warning about overwriting the existing file with the same name- but low and behold, I then open the html file in Dreamweaver to edit the actual content of the page and it reverts to the images folder instead of the psd file.

Correct.

DreamWeaver is not using the PSD file. PSD files are not used on the Web.

When you edit the template, you must then save the template from Photoshop in GIF, PNG, or JPEG format, *not* PSD format.

Open the HTML in Dreamweaver. Look closely at the pictures you see on your screen in Dreamweaver. They are not PSD files.

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