Its important to spend the time to design the layout of your webpages on paper before doing the work in Blue Voda. Then when you have finally decided on "the look" you want, you build it in BV and name the page something like "template" or "master".
Then you "save as" your template or master page as the real pages that you need; index, products, services, contact us, etc. Then you add the specific content to each page.
Great; but now you have finished, lets say 10 pages and you decide to make a change to your "template" or "master" page that you want reflected on all the real pages that you have just created - lots of work!!!
But there is a simple way to save some time. If you simply have added something to the template or master page, then "lock" the item, then copy it with the copy icon on the standard toolbar (not the copy command in the menu bar), and then paste the item using the paste icon in the standard toolbar (not the paste command in the menu bar), then the item will be placed on the page that you are in at the exact same place as it is located on the template or master page!!!! If you use the copy or paste from the menu bar it will be placed in a different place and you will have to manualy try to move it exactly.
This works even better if you select a group of locked items, so you can move a group of graphics or text, etc.
Not sure if this trick is well know, but sure has saved me a bunch of time!
Adrian
Then you "save as" your template or master page as the real pages that you need; index, products, services, contact us, etc. Then you add the specific content to each page.
Great; but now you have finished, lets say 10 pages and you decide to make a change to your "template" or "master" page that you want reflected on all the real pages that you have just created - lots of work!!!
But there is a simple way to save some time. If you simply have added something to the template or master page, then "lock" the item, then copy it with the copy icon on the standard toolbar (not the copy command in the menu bar), and then paste the item using the paste icon in the standard toolbar (not the paste command in the menu bar), then the item will be placed on the page that you are in at the exact same place as it is located on the template or master page!!!! If you use the copy or paste from the menu bar it will be placed in a different place and you will have to manualy try to move it exactly.
This works even better if you select a group of locked items, so you can move a group of graphics or text, etc.
Not sure if this trick is well know, but sure has saved me a bunch of time!
Adrian
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