Dreamweaver Design VANISHES

I have finally finished my design for our school website and
-POOF- the design view in dreamweaver has disappeared. I have tried
the view "design and code" as well as just "design". Still nothing.
When uploaded, the website still works but is uneditable in the
design view and shows up as nothing. I have tried copying the code
into a new web page and I still recieve the blank design view. Any
advice would be GREATLY appreciated.

Why not fix some of the errors first?
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mathews.k12.oh.us%3A80%2Fneal %2Fhome.htm
Also, might pay to have a look at your first couple of
<table> tags, one is
set to 90%, the next one is 110%!
Brendon
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>
> Thanks for your time

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