When designing a new website I tend to setup my Master Pages first, then add a Site Page so I can preview the results.
However, after previewing the test Site Page, I often forget to switch back to the master to make additional edits and find myself making edits to the site page instead. I wonder if a better solution would be to design a Site Page first, then use the Make Master option to turn the Site Page into a Master Page.
I tend not to use master pages at all when designing. I will start with a page, then duplicate it and try something else, and maybe once I have a half-dozen pages in a steel-cage match, find a winner and promote that to a master (or not). Most of my work in Freeway is in prototyping something that will become a template partial, chopped up and served like a salad by a database and application server.
Walter
On Apr 18, 2013, at 2:24 PM, RavenManiac wrote:
When designing a new website I tend to setup my Master Pages first, then add a Site Page so I can preview the results.
However, after previewing the test Site Page, I often forget to switch back to the master to make additional edits and find myself making edits to the site page instead. I wonder if a better solution would be to design a Site Page first, then use the Make Master option to turn the Site Page into a Master Page.
Why can’t you just right click on the page that you worked on in the left
navigation pane and select “make master” from the content menu?
On 18 April 2013 19:24, RavenManiac email@hidden wrote:
When designing a new website I tend to setup my Master Pages first, then
add a Site Page so I can preview the results.
However, after previewing the test Site Page, I often forget to switch
back to the master to make additional edits and find myself making edits to
the site page instead. I wonder if a better solution would be to design a
Site Page first, then use the Make Master option to turn the Site Page into
a Master Page.
I tend not to use master pages at all when designing. I will start with a page, then duplicate it and try something else, and maybe once I have a half-dozen pages in a steel-cage match, find a winner and promote that to a master (or not). Most of my work in Freeway is in prototyping something that will become a template partial, chopped up and served like a salad by a database and application server.
Walter
Yes, I’m going to start using your workflow. I’m wasting way too much time the way I’m doing it now. Thanks Walter.
Just go to that master, select all, and copy. Now make a new page based on a blank master, move to that blank page and paste. Everything (and everything about everything – all the metadata) will be copied along in Freeway’s extremely rich clipboard.
Walter
On Apr 18, 2013, at 2:39 PM, RavenManiac wrote:
Okay, now that I’ve designed myself into a corner, how do I turn a Master Page into a Site Page?