Once you have created your basic template page you need to create some Editable Regions. These are areas of the page that can be updated on all the web pages that are based on the template.

You should only need 2 editable regions - the page heading and the page contents. You do not want to be able to edit the site banner or the navigation bar on every page.

This video clip shows you how to insert editable regions into your template.

Once your editable regions have been created you need to define the style that will apply to that region of the page. For that we use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).

These are files that contain all the features you want on a part of the page (font, size, colour, background colout etc). You can create CSS files to use across multiple sites but for now we will create 2 (for the page heading and page contents) to use in just your eportfolio,

This video clip shows you how to create a CSS file (change the font etc. to match what you want for your own eportfolio). If you are creating page headings in Fireworks you only need to define the CSS for the page contents, otherwise you need to repeat this process for the page heading as well.