EXAMPLE A - NOT GOOD
<table>
<tr><td>

OR

Do you search for:

EXAMPLE B - GOOD
<table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
     <tr>
       <td rowspan="4" align="center" valign="top">

ANSWER
You search for the longer search term shown in Example B.

NEVER search for something very short
like you see in case A that will give you many
instances in a single page. Example B should
be LONG enough and unique enough to be seen
in a page one (1) time only.

TEST, TEST, TEST with
Find All before Replace All.

EXAMPLE C - NOT GOOD
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

EXAMPLE D - GOOD

        </td>
      </tr>
   </table>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" bgcolor="#000000"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td align="center"><img src="images/_SoftwareProducts.gif" width="387" height="37" hspace="20" vspace="15"></td>
  </tr>
   <tr>

1. Experiment with Find and Replace and get good at it.
2. Make sure you know how to use the HOT KEYS for CUT, COPY, and PASTE which are CONTROL-X, CONTROL-C, and CONTROL-V, respectively.
3. Be careful of just copying the demo vanilla pattern's Template and Library Files into your new web site directory.
4. What can happen is the SUPER and TOPNAV templates all get changed when you got a global find and replace
5. It's always best to bring up ONLY THOSE FILES (e.g. 20 files) that are going to be changed in the Open Documents window....
6. Do NOT do an Entire Current Local Site Find and Replace when adding the main outermost tags
   
7. Within the Find and Replace Widnow, set the Search dropdown box to "Source Code".
   
8. When using the Find and Replace, ALWAYS do a FIND ALL before a REPLACE ALL. The reason being is you want to look at the results window and see what was found, ONE BY ONE, by double clicking on each result found.
10. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE..... Make several backup copies of your web site and try doing these Find and Replace procedure on them
    
    
11. TYPICAL SCENARIO: 100 page web site divided up evenly into 5 categories.
    
    1. First use the file window in Dreamweaver and open up the 20 files that belong to a SINGLE category.
    2. Second, find where the orginal content starts for the 20 pages that are all open. Do this by using the Find and Replace command. REMEMBER, do a "FIND ALL" FIRST and also double click on each search result to make sure you are getting the correct location.
    3. Third, select the new code that is to be added via the table below; which if you are doing the first one #1, it will be "<!-- #BeginEditable "Body Text" -->"
       (Write this down if can't remember it OR open up Notepad and leave a snippet in them so you can use the Control-C to get it when you need it without having to type it over again.
    4. Dreamweaver automatically, (at least sometimes it does) put the currently selected text in the Find Textbox. Thus you can use select the new text before hand and hit Control-C and save it to your clipboard.
    5. And then go to the old text select that, and hit Control-F for Find and Replace.
    6. Then goto the Replace Textbox and hit Control-V and paste the new code in there and hit Replace.
       
    7. Make Sense? Once you get the hang of this set of keyboard strokes and method, you will be doing it again and again as it's fantastic time saver.
    
    
    
    
    
    Below are TYPICAL START and END TAGS that you might want to use as markers.
    
    
    BASICALLY YOU WANT TO ADD THE BLUE CODE NEXT TO YOUR RED CODE AS YOU CAN SEE BELOW
    
    

    		OLD WEB SITE FIND THIS CODE (marked in RED)	NEW WEB SITE REPLACE WITH THIS CODE RED and BLUE
    1.	Begin Main Original Content
    	Typically the main contecnt of your web page will be in some table. So look for and select a large enough amount of code to get a unique and specific area on your web pages so that most of them will found.	</font> </td> </tr> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0 border="0">	</font> </td> </tr> <!-- #BeginEditable "Body Text" --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0 border="0">
    	OR if you can do it this way.....	<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0 border="0">	<!-- #BeginEditable "Body Text" --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0 border="0">
    2.	End Main Original Content
    	Again the end of your main content will be close to a table tag and some other tags. Select your search term so that is will be unique which is usually accomplished with a large set of words or HTML code fragments.	</table> <font size="3"> Footer info </font> <table><tr><td>	</table> <!-- #EndEditable --> <font size="3"> Footer info </font> <table><tr><td>
    3.	START TEMPLATE CODE (top of page) (2 WAYS to attack this problem):
    	Look for Doctype XML tag and begin HTML tag	<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html>	<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/NestedTAlpha_Home.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" -->
    	Look for traditional begin HTML tag	<html>	<html> <!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/NestedTAlpha_Home.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" -->
    4.	END TEMPLATE CODE (very bottom of page):
    	Look for Ending HTML tag	</HTML>	<!-- InstanceEnd --> </HTML>

    
    
    
12. QUICK FIVE (5) STEP MANUAL PAGE BY PAGE UPGRADE
    Furthermore, if there are pages that don't update, you can still easily upgrade them.
    First, you can open up the original OLD web page in Dreamweaver.
    Second, make a NEW page off of a template.
    Third, go back to the OLD page, use the tag selector at the bottom of the window to select the desired table if possible. OR, just use the mouse and select the entire text that you wish and hit COPY or CONTROL-C
    Fourth, Goto the New page, and inside the Body Text Editable Area (that is,if you stuck the naming convention of the dmeo web patterns and hit, CONTROL-V or Paste
    Fifth< SAVE the NEW page with the same name as you see in the OLD page.
    
    THAT'S IT!