I have read all of the documentation I can find on Contribute and searched the
forums and have found a great many articles and advice on how to "deploy"
Contribute. However, I have yet to find an article or instructions regarding
the methodology to employ to deply Contribute to an *existing* site.

When I add a template item and mark a div tag as an editable region and
attempt to save the page, I am forced to save the page as a Dreamweaver
template. I have several hundred pre-existing pages that all have exactly the
same layout.

Do I have to save each of these pages as a separate template? If so, what do
I do with the old htm file? Do I save each of the several hundred pages as a
dwt file and then resave it as an htm file? If so, that will literally double
the number of pages that I have, although I *assume* that I would make changes
to the dwt file in the future and not to the htm file. Is that correct?

Is there not a way to create a single template (dwt) and associate that
template to all of the pre-existing htm files (which number in the hundreds)?
Will the contribute user open the dwt file to make thier edits? Or will they
open the htm file?

Are there any instructions on how to deply Contribute to an *existing* site?
Had this process been started prior to the creation of the current pages I can
see the value of using Contribute, but having to retrofit pages that share the
exact layout but that have varying content and creating a template for each
page seems overkill. Also, the site in question is completely static.

Thanks!

Vince