Baffled by design view mangling

Hello all - new to this forum and could use some guidance for
what to check
for/revise to have my situation resolved.
On NVu web authoring editor, I see the follow visually
correct web page,
complete with banner frame, left/right menu bars, and center
content area:
NVu
Screenshot
(PS, I added green/purple/peach shading areas to show various
TD tags.)
The exact same html/css page within DW shows a radically
different display,
\with the right menu bar spanning across width of page,
followed further
down by left menu bar, and finally center content area.
Dreamweaver
screenshot for top banner plus the left side menu bar are
shown.
What is interesting is that the DW design screen shows a
</td>, a </tr>,
and at bottom of page </tbody> and </table>
hilighted in yellow with DW
complaining they are invalid markup because of being
overlapping or
unclosed tags. Viewing source shows neither case to be true.
What suggestions would you folks have? I know the original
source
was made using Frontpage and now I am attempting to make the
various
ages all behave properly in DW for ongoing support.
The html source is attached.
thanks for your advice folks,
dbMorris

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> The question is - how did that corresponding EndEditable
tag get deleted?
>
>
> Murray - the EndEditable was never mangled. As I
mentioned in original
> posting, the web site pages existed prior to my porting
them into
> Dreamweaver.
> The original authors had essentially omitted the tag
somehow and the
> omission
> was not flagged as an error in Frontpage. I now am
cleaning up the
> situation.
>
> thanks for the reply,
> dbMorris
>
>
>

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> > if that makes any sense.
>
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>
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>
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Dreamweaver is pretty good these days at showing the page in Design View how it will be viewed when online. HOWEVER having said that it does largely depend on the way you write the css.
I guess for Dreamweaver it's impossible for it to show every concievable way you can write css correctly. Unfortuantely if your css is not compatible with what Dreamweaver likes it won't make a great job of rendering the site correctly in Design View, that's always been the case.
The css is not wrong but I've seen many display issues in Dreameaver Design View caused as a direct result of the css being overly complex to crack simple presentation. I guess it's in the lap of the gods if you are fortunate enough to have found the way to write css that Dreamweaver likes.

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