Editing Pages Designed in Webstudio 5.0 with Dreamweaver CS5.5

Most of our website was recently redone by an outside party using Webstudio 5.0.  When I open the pages in Dreamweaver the bottom portion is solid blue which makes it difficult to edit.  The majority of the items are text objects or images.  I am doing a good deal of the editing in the code side, but it is more time consuming.  They pages do for the most part appear correctly on the Web.  I am not extremely savvy with web design.  I have recently upgraded from Dreamweaver 8 to CS5.5.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Penny

Penny,
I can't see your screenshot from DW.  Attached files don't come through to the web forum.  You would need to come to the web forum and insert an image into your reply with the camera icon. 
Looking at the source code, it's clear that whoever built this didn't know a hill o' beans about modern web standards which is very disappointing.   On your home page, you have a lot of code validation errors.  Some are not critical, but code errors are never a good thing.
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ruidoso-nm.gov%2F
The navigation is image based.  Not very web friendly for translators, screen readers and search engines that can't "see text" in images.
Owing to the liberal use of inline styles and absolute positioning, the whole page falls apart when text size is increased in browsers.  See my screenshot from Firefox.  
I'm very sorry you got burned by an inexperienced web designer. Sadly, there is no quick fix for this without re-building the site.  
Feel free to contact me through my web site when you're ready.
http://alt-web.com/contact.shtml
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media  Specialists 
http://alt-web.com/
http://twitter.com/altweb

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