Error in Design View.

I'm building a website called
HesedBooks.com, a website for our
Online Bookselling business.
I had made a post on another forum about whether or not it
was possible to set it up like a Wordpress blog, with the bar on
the left being it's own page, so I wouldn't have to edit 80+ pages
every time I needed the sidebar to change.
Here's what we're looking for the left section of the front
page to look like:
http://hesedbooks.com/images/leftexample.jpg
Someone helped me out by telling me about .php includes, and
gave me this snippet of code:
<?php include('pageName.php'); ?>
Well, I put that in, and it works FLAWLESSLY when it's
published to the web, but it make my design screen impossible to
use when editing my pages locally.
Here's what it does. It goes from this (without the code):
(And I'm aware of the blank spaces. Those are the
placeholders for the .php includes.)
http://hesedbooks.com/images/codehelp01.jpg
To this:
(That's the nav page.)
http://hesedbooks.com/images/codehelp01.jpg
It completely removes anything from the .php include down,
and turns the cursor into a "no" symbol (Circle with the line
diagonally through it.)
I'm really at a loss. The only possible thing I can think of,
is that the page was created as an XHTML/HTML page in Dreamweaver,
then re-saved as a .php page.
Any help?

Hmm, tried that, and it seemed to work, but now I'm confused
as to how to structure the <body onload=> tags and whatnot.
Below is the code for my header page. How do I restructure it
to retain the javascript coding, but remove the head and body tags?
[code]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<title>Hesed Books - </title>
<link href="scripts/style.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</head>
<body
onload="MM_preloadImages('images/navabout_on.png','images/navproc_on.png','images/navtop_ on.png','images/navcontact_on.png','images/navblog_on.png','images/navstore_on.png','image s/navsellers_on.png','images/navbuyers_on.png','images/navhome_on.png')">
<table width="900" border="0" align="center"
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="1" height="150" rowspan="2"
bgcolor="#210E07"></td>
<td width="898" height="150"><a
href="index.html"><img src="images/banner.png" width="898"
height="150" /></a></td>
<td width="1" height="150" rowspan="2"
bgcolor="#210E07"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="900" height="35"
background="images/navback.png" bgcolor="#210E07"><div
align="center"><a href="index.php"
onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()"
onmouseover="MM_swapImage('navhome','','images/navhome_on.png',1)"><img
src="images/navhome_off.png" name="navhome" width="90" height="70"
border="0" id="navhome" /></a><a href="about.php"
onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()"
onmouseover="MM_swapImage('navabout','','images/navabout_on.png',1)"><img
src="images/navabout_off.png" name="navabout" width="100"
height="70" border="0" id="navabout" /></a><a href="
http://www.hesedbooks.com/blog"
target="_blank"
onmouseover="MM_swapImage('blog','','images/navblog_on.png',1)"
onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img
src="images/navblog_off.png" name="blog" width="100" height="70"
border="0" id="blog" /></a><a href="
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.php?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs hops%2Fhesedbooks&tag=hesedbocom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325"
target="_blank"
onmouseover="MM_swapImage('store','','images/navstore_on.png',1)"
onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img
src="images/navstore_off.png" name="store" width="100" height="70"
border="0" id="store" /></a><a href="process.php"
onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()"
onmouseover="MM_swapImage('navproc','','images/navproc_on.png',1)"><img
src="images/navproc_off.png" name="navproc" width="100" height="70"
border="0" id="navproc" /></a><a href="toplists.php"
onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()"
onmouseover="MM_swapImage('navtop','','images/navtop_on.png',1)"><img
src="images/navtop_off.png" name="navtop" width="100" height="70"
border="0" id="navtop" /></a><a href="sellers.php"
onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()"
onmouseover="MM_swapImage('forsellers','','images/navsellers_on.png',1)"><img
src="images/navsellers_off.png" name="forsellers" width="100"
height="70" border="0" id="forsellers" /></a><a
href="buyers.php" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()"
onmouseover="MM_swapImage('forbuyers','','images/navbuyers_on.png',1)"><img
src="images/navbuyers_off.png" name="forbuyers" width="100"
height="70" border="0" id="forbuyers" /></a><a
href="contact.php" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()"
onmouseover="MM_swapImage('navcontact','','images/navcontact_on.png',1)"><img
src="images/navcontact_off.png" name="navcontact" width="100"
height="70" border="0" id="navcontact"
/></a></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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I've made an html page in dreamweaver with a banner, with an additional graphic and some text on top of the banner. It displays just fine in every browser when I view from the local folder, but when I open DW and view, it displays incorrectly in all three design, live and browser views within DW. If I make changes to the css file until it views correctly in design view, it no longer displays correctly from the local folder and it still doesn't view correctly in live or browser view within DW. If what I'm doing isnt going to display accurately in any of the views provided by Dreamweaver as compared to the live server, whats the point in having this software? I could just keep building webpages in notepad and uploading with CoreFTP.
Any suggestions? Is it some setting that I dont know about that I need to change within DW? Please help.

align="center" is deprecated (obsolete) code in XHTML & HTML5 doc types. Instead of styling markup with HTML, you should be using CSS.
CSS
.center {text-align:center}
HTML
<p class="center">some centered text here</p>
With respect to break tags, in XHTML doc types the correct syntax is <br /> not <br>. However your usage of line breaks is inconsistent with good symantic markup. Use headings <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> for important keywords. Use <p> for descriptive paragraphs. Use <ul> <li> or <ol> <li> for lists. Line breaks should be used minimally if ever.
XHTML doc types require all tags to be lowercase. Uppercase tags will throw errors.
Your design is too rigid. When text size is increased in browsers, your content is unreadable. See screenshot.
SOLUTIONS:
1) DO NOT USE POSITION ABSOLUTE. You don't need it. Absolute positioning removes content from the normal document flow resulting in a jumbled mess. Use default CSS positioning (none) with margins, padding & floats to align elements.
2) Remove HEIGHT values from all CSS containers. Height limits a container's capacity to hold more content when needed. Container height should always be determined by the amount of content it holds; not explicit values. If required to reveal a background image, for example, use CSS min-height instead of height.
CSS Box Model
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_boxmodel.asp
CSS Floats
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_float.asp
CSS min-height
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_dim_min-height.asp
Nancy O.
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Design view is empty

I'm able to see the html/cf code in the code view, but in the
design view I don't see anything, to include tables, etc. I'm using
DWMX2004.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Force

Does the page validate? If not, then fix the validation
errors. That's the
best way to approach troublesome pages.
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> > if that makes any sense.
>
> It doesn't really. If the page is valid HTML, you will
see it in DW.
> Even
> when it is a combination of some scripting language and
HTML, you will see
> something.
>
>
> well, maybe that's how it should be. but this website
defies all reason
> and
> convention. i think most people would have quit/suffered
a nervous
> breakdown/killed my boss by now. the people who worked
here before me left
> quite a mess, i must say.
>
> i think the code probably isn't valid. but i really
don't know enough
> about
> coding yet to fix it. and it works, it just makes it
hard to figure out
> where i
> need to edit things sometimes.
>
> but we're not discussing my ridiculous website here! not
anymore, at
> least.
>
> -courtney
>
>

What is the replacement for design view in in flex builder 4.7 for cs extension builder?

Because design view is not available in flash builder than what is the use of extension builder in UI designing now we have to do design UI with xml which is very time consuming and boring if there is any replacemnt for it than please help me .1 more thing i want to know is that when i make new default project in extension builder(flash builder 4.6) than it also not able to load design mode errror is
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4.6\eclipse\plugins\com.adobe.cside.libsinstaller_2.0.0.4-33034\archive\cslibs\2.0\4.5\re lease\apedelta.swc- not respondingSWC file failed to load. Any component dependent on this SWC file will not be displayed in the Design Mode.The SWC may have failed to load because of:
* Incompatible definitions caused by usage of a different SDK version
* Missing referred class definitions

I have researched this quite considerably and my understanding is that Adobe have no intention of supporting Design View any more for Extension Builder. In my opinion a very disappointing decision and one that is hard to comprehend.
The best workaround I can find is to create the majority of your design in a parallel, non Extension Builder, project and then convert/import your design into your Extension. This is by no means as satisfactory as having Design View for the Extension you are writing but it is better than simply creating your layout by guess work/trial and error.
Although this has not been announced by Adobe, I have a suspicion that the reason they have decided not to put any further resources into fixing Design View is that Extension Builder as we know it is going to be abandoned soon, probably replaced with an HTML5/JavaScript method of building extensions. My concern with this is that, other than wanting reassurances that there will be backward compatibility support for old extensions, There will not be a way of compiling an extension in a way that prevents people from seeing your code.
This is all speculation and I guess we will have to wait and see what happens. Hope this has helped.

Error in Design View.

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