Lots and lots of code errors

Question

I work at a nonprofit, and we've just been given a new
website provided to us by a team of volunteers. However, the
template has some minor typos that I need to fix. Whenever I save
the template, I get error after error, primarily along the lines of
"Unbalanced #EndEditable tag" or "Nested Editable Regions," but
some others have popped up, too. I can't ignore the error, either,
because the rest of the pages in the site won't update.
The volunteer team was working in two different versions of
Dreamweaver, and the following part of the code seems to be source
of several of the problems. There's two different versions of the
"begineditable" and "endeditable tags," with a section beginning
with "#begineditable" and then containing a
"templatebegineditable." When I try to standardize the tags or
remove them from within each other, the content region drops to
below the left nav. I don't understand what's happenning, or how to
fix it. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jodi
<!-- BeginEditable "leftnav" -->
<table width="205" border="0" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td height="32" align="center"
background="../IMAGES/left_nav_top.gif" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
class="nav_links">
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="left_nav_title" -->
<table width="190" border="0" align="left"
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="nav_links_title">About Page </td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top"
background="../IMAGES/left_nav_middle.gif" class="text">
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="left_nav_sections"
-->
<table width="190" border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td height="25"><img
src="../images/button-arrow.gif" width="13" height="13"><span
class="nav_links">About
Us </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="25"><img
src="../images/button-arrow.gif" width="13" height="13"><span
class="nav_links">Board
of Directors </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="25"><img
src="../images/button-arrow.gif" width="13" height="13"><span
class="nav_links">Meet
Our Staff </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="25"><img
src="../images/button-arrow.gif" width="13" height="13"><span
class="nav_links">Partners</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="25"><img
src="../images/button-arrow.gif" width="13" height="13"><span
class="nav_links">Funding
and Financials </span></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="32" align="center" valign="top"
background="../IMAGES/left_nav_bottom.gif"
class="text""> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- #EndEditable -->
<table width="205" border="0" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td height="32" background="../IMAGES/left_nav_top.gif"
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="nav_links"><font color="#000000"
class="nav_links_title">What's your
Footprint?</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td background="../IMAGES/left_nav_middle.gif"
class="text">
<p><a href="
http://www.myfootprint.org"
target="_blank"><img src="../images/logo_eco_fp.gif"
width="180" height="80" border="0"></a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td background="../IMAGES/left_nav_middle.gif"
class="text"><a href="
http://www.officefootprint.org"
target="_blank"><img src="../images/logo_off_fp.gif"
width="180" height="26" border="0"></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td background="../IMAGES/left_nav_middle.gif"
class="text"><a href="
http://www.kidsfootprint.org"
target="_blank"><img src="../images/logo_kid_fp.gif"
width="180" height="28" border="0"></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td background="../IMAGES/left_nav_middle.gif"
class="text"><a href="
http://www.ecologicalfootprint.org"
target="_blank"><img src="../images/logo_nat_fp.gif"
width="180" height="51" border="0"></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td background="../IMAGES/left_nav_bottom.gif"
class="text"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="32" background="../IMAGES/left_nav_top.gif"
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="nav_links"><font color="#000000"
class="nav_links_title">Learn about
EJCC </font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td background="../IMAGES/left_nav_middle.gif"
class="text"><a href="
http://www.ejcc.org"
target="_blank"><img src="../images/logo_ejcc.gif"
width="180" height="60" border="0"></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="14"
background="../IMAGES/left_nav_bottom.gif"
class="text"> </td>
</tr>
</table> </td>
<td width="803"> <!-- #BeginEditable "content"
-->
<table width="763" border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td height="31"
background="../images/content_top.gif"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td background="../images/content_middle.gif">
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" -->
<table width="760" height="491" border="0"
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="text"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="31"
background="../images/content_bottom.gif"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- #EndEditable --></td>

Answer 1

</table>
<!-- #EndEditable --></td>
I think somebody worked on the page with dw3 or dw4.
If the code you showed was from the Template, it should work
if you strip
out the #BeginEditable and #EndEditable and leave the
TemplateBegin and
TemplateEnd.
Then scan the code to see if all template syntax is correct,
and everything
you need to edit is in an Editable region. dw
menu-->modify-->Templates-->Check template syntax.
My guess is the dw4 person made one big editable area, and
the MX or newer
person put in a group of distinct editable areas that are now
nested inside
the old template syntax editable area.
Strong Suggestion- Make a backup copy of the site's Local
Site Folder before
doing anything- template syntax problems can cause loss of
content.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/