To everything you depend on, there are down sides; templates are no exceptions:

• By default, the entire template is locked until you create options for editing.

• Once you apply a template, you can no longer edit page properties.

• When you create a template, DreamWeaver places them in a "templates" folder; if you move the template out of its folder, you break all the links connected to it and all the pages created by it.

• When linking you must use let DreamWeaver create the link in the Property Inspector (or by pressing Ctrl+L) for relative links. Absolute links are not a problem. Part of this stems from the change made from the template, in the template folder, which corrects for this path when 'instances' or new pages are mad based on the template.