A Dreamweaver web template is nothing unusual. It simply means that template was exported to or made using Dreamweaver, the industry-standard HTML editor. It is the tool most often used by professional site designers, because of the ease with which one can author web page elements.

Is there an advantage to a Dreamweaver template as opposed to one that was authored using a different tool? Well, if it’s a CSS-layered template, only Dreamweaver let’s you easily position layered elements because it visually represents absolutely positioned div tags. Formatting elements is also a snap with the dedicated CSS panel.

While Dreamweaver generates standards-compliant code, it does insert some proprietary tags which cannot be easily recognized by other WYSIWYG editors like Microsoft FrontPage. The program comes with a hefty price tag, though. If you are knowledgeable in HTML you can just manually modify the source code. This is much better than opening it in another WYSIWYG editor, which tends to mess up the code when you save the page.