Using stationery

Pages stored in the Stationery folder of your site's data folder can be used as templates for creating new pages. Like page templates, you can mark areas in a stationery document's layout as editable regions and lock the rest of the content. Unlike page templates, stationery has no dynamic link with the pages created from it. Changes you make to a stationery file do not affect pages already created from that file.

To create a stationery file:

1. Prepare the content and layout for the stationery document in the Layout Editor in the document window. You can use the Template Regions palette to mark locked and editable regions in the layout. (See Creating a page template.)
2. Open the site window and do any of the following to save the page as stationery:
• Choose File > Save As, name the stationery, choose Stationery from the Site Folder menu, and click Save.
• Choose Save As > Save As Stationery from the document window menu, name the stationery, and click Save.
• In the site window, drag the page from the Files tab to the Stationery folder in the Extras tab.

Stationery files are stored in the Stationery folder in the site's data folder and appear in the Extras tab in the site window and in the Site Extras set in the Objects palette.

To create a new page using stationery:

1. Do one of the following:
• Choose File > New Special > Page From Stationery.
• Double-click the stationery icon in the Site Extras set in the Objects palette or the stationery file in the Extras tab in the site window, and click Create.
• In the site window, drag the stationery file from the Extras tab into the Files tab, and click Create.
• In the Site Extras set in the Objects palette, choose Stationery from the pop-up menu at the bottom of the palette. Then drag the stationery icon from the Objects palette to the Files tab in the site window, or onto a page in navigation view. (In navigation view, hold the stationery icon over the page until a bar appears above, below, or at the side of page, and then release the mouse.)
• Set a preference to use the stationery file for all new pages by default, and then choose File > New Page or Site > New > Page. (See Setting preferences for opening pages.)

GoLive creates a new untitled page based on the stationery template. If you used the navigation hierarchy, the new page is stored in the New Files folder in the site.

2. Use the File and Page tabs in the File Inspector to change the filename and title of the new page.