Question about Dreamweaver CS4 Preview in Browser

Good morning,
as a newcomer to Dreamweaver CS4, I find myself in a strange position: I managed to create several pages that work correctly, but whenever I transfer those pages in the server of the company I work for, they show up with a different format for the text parts, and the divs show up as shorter than they should be. And yet, I pretty much copy-and-pasted the original working html pages from my C to the server... why does this problem happen?
Thank you very much.

I can't really say without seeing your code. But some things that may cause issues:
- make sure your code is valid by running it through a validator: http://validator.w3.org/ and fixing any issues noted
- Some older versions of IE have a different way of handeling the box-model concept and this can cause sizing and layout issues. You can read all about it on the internet.
But I would focus on making sure your code is valid - most rendering issues are caused by invalid code like missing closing tags, improperly nested elements, etc.

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- the second, why is the site not working in the browser Internet Explorer. In firefox it is working very well.
thanks for your help.
grr Tonstin

TonStin wrote:
I,m a beginner with CS4.
I've 2 problems and i dont know how to solve them.
- the first, how do you attac/.combine/,connect 2 webpages together, what tools do you use/
Opinion: If you don't know how to do this basic requirement, then I'd suggestthat you don't open Dreamweaver until you have a basic understanding of HTML and css. If you don't know any html/css then using Dreamweaver is going to be an uphill struggle. Learn some basics and Dreamweaver will be easier to use.
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- the second, why is the site not working in the browser Internet Explorer. In firefox it is working very well.
Could be any number of issues. You need to upload the page to your hosting server and provide the link to this page. The answer will be in the code (hence the above opinion about learning html/css :-)

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Hi,
I need help/guidance figuring this out:
when the page is displayed in Dreamweaver CS4 design view the top menu is aligned properly, the font size is according to the CSS code and all other tags like H2 or H4 are properly displayed
same when I choose to see the new page in "Preview In Browser" (F12) in Firefox or Safari (I'm on Mac Book)
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Joseph

Thanks SnakEyez02 for your reply,
Most of the time I use "Preview in Browser" or [F12] and that shows me the same as the design view which in this case is different than actually viewing the page on the web server (live). I do understand your point for setting dimensions on the menu box and I'l do those changes, but maybe you can also give me your opinion for the H2 tags, as you can see in the 2 images attached to the original post, bellow the menu there are H2, H3 and H4 tags and they look different as well, it's like only part of the style.css is applied.
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Regards
TD

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I am new to Dreamweaver CC, but I've used other versions of Dreamweaver extensively.
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Is it running?
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Hi,
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Hi,
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> what language or means does it use to provide that
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      exportReturn_ErrLastWarningSet,           // the Exporter had an warning and set a display string for it using the PrSDKErrorSuite.
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      exportReturn_AudioCodecNeedsActivation,         // the current audio codec is not activated and cannot be used.
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