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Most websites have areas that are repeated from page to page such as navigation bars, header areas and footers.

There are easy-to-use components in Dreamweaver to make those changes appear on multiple pages when the change is made at one location -- Libraries and Templates.
Dreamweaver Libraries

The easiest way to go about creating a Library Item is by placing content on a web page as you wish it to appear, then converting it to a Library Item. Keep in mind that using tables to control your layout is the only cross-compatible method.
Design the content on a web page you wish to convert to a Library Item.
Go to Window > Assets. Click on the Library icon on the left side of the Assets window

Select the area you wish to convert to a Library Item.
Click on the black arrow at the top of the Assets window and choose New Library Item.
Give it a file name easy to remember.

File names should contain lower case letters, numbers, hyphens, and/or underscores. They should not contain spaces.

When you wish to add this Library Item to another web page, select the appropriate Library Item from the list in the Assets window then simply drag from the gray area at the top of it and drop into the web page.

Modifying a Library Item

When you need to change a Library Item, open the Library Item by double clicking on the file name in the Assets window, make the changes on the page, and save. The changes will appear wherever you have inserted the Library Item.
Look at the head section of the HTML of your page. Notice the title of the page is an editable region. Begin Editable line of code, and paste it immediately below the <head> tag. You can also cut the entire End Editable line of code, and paste it just above the </head> tag.
When you have finished assigning editable regions, save the Template.. All the other pages sharing the Template design are automatically updated.

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