Newbie question about editing template

I'm new to dreamweaver and I've been getting the hang of things but I'm stuck on editing my navigation bar. I know this might seem pretty beginner but I am very new to code and designing website.
I've been working on a website template and I've been mostly editing it from design than code. But here's my problem. This is how the navigation bar looks in live view:
http://img684.imageshack.us/i/pic2me.jpg/
But when in design view, the navigation bar disappears.
I looked through the code and the template doesn't include any of the navigation bar text so I can't adjust it in the code.
Does anyone know what I should do?
Thank you!

We need to see the code to comment.
How has the nav bar been inserted into the page?
Are you using Spry in Dreamweaver?

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