Can I lock regions of NON TEMPLATE site pages??

[d-litefully]

Hi there,
I have an existing site that was completely custom designed, and was NOT
created using templates, and I need to now provide access for my client, using
Contribute, to edit parts of certain pages. Is there any way to lock parts or
cells of these existing pages so that the client can't edit certain regions???

I hope there is a way to sort of "Contribute enable" a non-template site.
Thanks for any help you can give..

[Alan]

No. But- it's a simple thing to make it a templated page if you are using
dreamweaver.

open it in Dreamweaver.
File-->Menu-->Save As Template.
Select the regions needed and make them editable regions.

rename the existing .html page (and say NO to updating links), to keep it
for backup for now.
Now spawn a child page from the template.
File-->New-->From Template-->That site-->That template
Save with exact-oldfilename.html

same exact page, with dw editable regions to limit client to certain areas
of editing with contribute.

[d-litefully]

thanks so much for that reply. I'll try that idea..

[Alan]

> thanks so much for that reply. I'll try that idea..

about the only downside is you'll have to repeat the process for each page,
if they are unique. but it's just a few repetitive clicks, and it does keep
the client out of parts of the page you don't want them to edit.

Also- upload the template .dwt files, so Contribute can see them.
And always check all files back in when done editing so the client can touch
them.