New pages made From Template messed up!

Question

Hello,
I have made a template that is not yet finished... I decided
to test it out, but when I make new pages from it, the formatting
is messed up (in any new pages that I create from the template).
This of course is happening prior to uploading to the pages... (I
need to make many different pages from the template but cannot
proceed because of this...)
If I preview the new ‘messed up’ page in Safari
(that is by clicking the Preview button in Dreamweaver itself), it
is almost OK, but the background image does not show up. Could
anyone suggest what I might need to do to get the ‘new’
page to appear fine in Dreamweaver itself.
I am new to Dreamweaver and have just started with it since
moving from GoLive...
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

> Well, that solved the problem. Changed my hard disk name
from D's 200 to
> just
> D 200. After that I had to reset the site root folder
but now pages made
> from
> the template are correctly formatted...
If it would be considered a bug, then many programs would
have it! As a
general rule of thumb, it's best to avoid any characters in
your
file/pathnames other than letters, numbers, and
hyphens/underscores. That
would eliminate spaces, quotes, ampersands, parentheses, etc.
> One remaining question. In the template, I used
Modify/Page Properties to
> add
> a background to it. When I make a new page from the
template, the
> background
> does not appear. Is that normal or should it appear?
It should appear, so there must be something wrong in the
resulting code.
Can we see it?
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> Hello,
>
> Read through both the latest suggestions and decided to
try getting rid of
> the
> single quote first as it was the easiest to do. I am on
a Mac by the
> way...
>
> Well, that solved the problem. Changed my hard disk name
from D's 200 to
> just
> D 200. After that I had to reset the site root folder
but now pages made
> from
> the template are correctly formatted...
>
> Thank you so much for this excellent troubleshooting
experience. I guess
> this
> single quote problem would be considered a bug (surely
single quotes
> should be
> allowed in the names of hard disks???) as I don't ever
remember Apple
> saying
> don't use single quotes when naming a hard disk...
>
> Should I/we report it to Adobe? I would be happy to. I
don't know how
> these
> forums work but it might be an idea to post a
topic/sticky with
> appropriate
> keywords so that others will be made aware of it easily.
>
> One remaining question. In the template, I used
Modify/Page Properties to
> add
> a background to it. When I make a new page from the
template, the
> background
> does not appear. Is that normal or should it appear?
>
> Thanks so much.
>
>