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Dynamic Web Templates and editable regions can sometimes limit you more than you might like. The fact that they prevent you from adding a new table to an editable region is the perfect example. Although there are times when you want very strict control over formatting of all parts of your Web pages, there are also times when you want developers to have more freedom with design decisions than Dynamic Web Templates and editable regions allow. There is, however, a way to work around this.

If you would like to give your developers the freedom to add tables into editable regions of your Dynamic Web Template, it can be accomplished quite easily. You simply need to provide the template with a table already in the editable region.

Open the existing Dynamic Web Template that you created while working in this chapter and perform the following steps.

1. Click inside the MainContent editable region.

2. Select Table, Insert, Table and insert a table with the default settings.

3. Save the Dynamic Web Template.

4. Create a new page and attach it to the Dynamic Web Template.

5. Click inside the MainContent editable region.

6. If the table from the Dynamic Web Template is visible, select it and remove it.

7. Select Table, Insert, Table and insert a table. Change the default settings if you'd like.

Notice that FrontPage allowed you to insert the table into the editable region without complaint. You can also reformat the table any way you'd like or get rid of the table altogether. As long as a table exists in the editable region in the Dynamic Web Template file itself, you can insert and configure one in the same editable region of any page to which that Dynamic Web Template is attached.