About site assets

Site assets include templates for pages and sites, and custom sets of text, objects, colors, fonts, and URLs that you can collect and use on any page in your site. These can be especially useful when several people are building a site. You collect and store site assets in the site window, in your site's data folder, and as objects in the Objects palette.

Page templates

You can use page templates to prevent others from changing certain parts of a page layout in new pages. Any area of the layout that you don't mark as an editable region is automatically locked when you create a new page from the template. New pages created from a page template remain linked to the template--when you change the template, GoLive automatically updates the pages without affecting any content that has been added to them.

Components

Components are HTML source files that you can add to a page as a single object, such as a navigation bar with hypertext links. You can use components to store text, objects, and attributes that you want to reuse on multiple pages in your site. Components on a page remain linked to their source files--you can double-click them to open the source files. When you change a component's source file, all the pages containing the component are automatically updated.

Stationery

Stationery files are like page templates except that new pages created from stationery files do not remain linked to the files--changes you make in a stationery file are not updated in the new pages. Stationery is useful when you want to set up starting elements for a page (such as a background color, no page margins, and an external cascading style sheet) and then set GoLive to use the stationery page whenever it creates a new untitled page. (See Setting preferences for opening pages.)

Site templates

Site templates are groups of files and folders that GoLive uses to create new sites. You can use site templates to give a standard look and functionality to pages in multiple sites--for example, when you need to maintain standards on your company's departmental Web sites. Site templates reside in a folder in the Adobe GoLive 6.0 folder.

Library objects

You can save snippets of source code, text, images, and other objects in a library and add them to pages as single objects. Library objects are similar to components except that library objects do not remain linked to their source files when you add them to a page. You can save library objects for a specific site or for use with any site.

Colors and font sets

Colors and font sets are attributes that you can save and reuse on pages for a site. You collect and name site colors and font sets in the Colors and Font Sets tabs in the site window. You can then choose your custom site colors and font sets by name from the Color palette or from the Type > Font menu. Site colors and font sets remain linked to pages you use them on, so whenever you change a site color or font set GoLive updates every place where the color or font set is used.

URLs and e-mail addresses

URLs and e-mail addresses are Href attributes that you can collect in the External tab in the site window and then reuse the same attribute values for links in your site. When you change the value of a site URL, links on the pages that reference the URL are automatically updated.