SideBar won't edit

[desperate4help]

My rgtsidebar appears on every page of my website and it has text that I want
to edit, but in Contribute when I go to click on the text to edit it, it seems
to be one object that I can't change or even highlight text in. (I go to
highlight text and the whole box is highlighted.) I feel like this problem has
something to do with the fact that this sidebar is on every page of the
website, but I didn't make the template so I don't know how to change it or
even how to make a new one. How does one change template properties?
I would really appreciate help on this!
Thanks.

[Laiverd.COM]

Sounds like your sidebar is simply not been assigned as an editable region
in the template from which the page is derived. Edit the original template
in Dreamweaver to make that area an editable region.

John

"desperate4help" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:f59hoc$mvs$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> My rgtsidebar appears on every page of my website and it has text that I
> want
> to edit, but in Contribute when I go to click on the text to edit it, it
> seems
> to be one object that I can't change or even highlight text in. (I go to
> highlight text and the whole box is highlighted.) I feel like this
> problem has
> something to do with the fact that this sidebar is on every page of the
> website, but I didn't make the template so I don't know how to change it
> or
> even how to make a new one. How does one change template properties?
> I would really appreciate help on this!
> Thanks.
>
>

[ThinkInk]

You can also adjust the template in Dreamweaver with a server-side-include
(f.i. PHP).

You replace the content for the sidebar with f.i. <?php
include("sidebar.php"); ?>.

You can then edit the sidebar.php file, when it's in need of an update,
instead of your template, so you won't have to update and upload the intire
site in Dreamweaver.

You can even provide your end-user(s) with a link to sidebar.php so they can
edit it in Contribute.

grtz.
Hayo