Can't Make a Hot Spot!

Question

Hi there,
I'm using Dreamweaver 8 to make a new website.
For some reason I can't make a hot spot. I've only made one
website before and just checked on those pages and was able to
click on the hot spot tools and draw a hot spot.
Then I go to my new website and click on an image and then
click on the hot spot tools and try to draw a hot spot on the
picture- what happens is the picture tries to "drag and drop". That
is the command that dreamweaver says is happening when I try to try
to draw the hot spot. ???????
What went wrong???
Here is the Html code behind the photo I'm trying to draw the
hot spot on:
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><img
src="graphics-headers/skyfooter.jpg" alt="Sky Footer" width="800"
height="45" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated as I don't know
what I did in the code that's preventing me from drawing them.
As I'm just starting making all my pages off my template-
found another problem:
Template won't update all the changes. For instance: Made a
change to the copyright footer - capitilized first letter- this
change won't update. Made changes to the page properties with a
link color change, also changed editable region- these changes
updated.
Weird!!! So the pages made from the template will be updated
only part ways from the original Template!
What did I do wrong? My first website went very well.
www.zoodoc-stories.com

Answer 1

When you create a polygonal hotspot, you don't click and
drag. You click at
the vertex of each side. Is that what you are doing?
Here are seven common mistakes that will result in changes
not propagating
from Template to child -
1. Rename the Templates folder
2. Move the Templates folder to some other folder level in
the site other
than root level
3. Move a template out of the Templates folder.
4. Make changes to an editable region of the template (which
will not
propagate)
5. Assume that template changes can be uploaded to the server
without also
uploading the changed local files
6. Corrupt the site cache so that the link between template
and child page
is broken
7, Improperly create your child pages by simply opening the
template,
adding page specific content, and resaving the template with
an *.html
extension rather that its *.dwt extension. (you can tell if
this is the case
by looking at the code on a child page - if you see anything
like <!--
TemplateBeginEditable... then this is what you have done)
The 6th problem can be repaired by using SITE | Advanced >
Recreate Site
Cache, and the six others can be fixed by just not doing
them. Have you
done any of those?
Or, read this -
http://www.adobe.com/go/dd83ba8b
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"sculpturedolls" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi there,
>
> I'm using Dreamweaver 8 to make a new website.
>
> For some reason I can't make a hot spot. I've only made
one website before
> and
> just checked on those pages and was able to click on the
hot spot tools
> and
> draw a hot spot.
>
> Then I go to my new website and click on an image and
then click on the
> hot
> spot tools and try to draw a hot spot on the picture-
what happens is the
> picture tries to "drag and drop". That is the command
that dreamweaver
> says is
> happening when I try to try to draw the hot spot.
>
> What went wrong???
>
> Here is the Html code behind the photo I'm trying to
draw the hot spot on:
>
> <tr>
> <td colspan="3"><img
src="graphics-headers/skyfooter.jpg" alt="Sky Footer"
> width="800" height="45" /></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
>
> Any help at all would be greatly appreciated as I don't
know what I did in
> the
> code that's preventing me from drawing them.
>
> ----------------------------
>
> As I'm just starting making all my pages off my
template- found another
> problem:
>
> Template won't update all the changes. For instance:
Made a change to the
> copyright footer - capitilized first letter- this change
won't update.
> Made
> changes to the page properties with a link color change,
also changed
> editable
> region- these changes updated.
>
> Weird!!! So the pages made from the template will be
updated only part
> ways
> from the original Template!
>
> What did I do wrong? My first website went very well.
> www.zoodoc-stories.com
>
>