Problem using Design view

I just converted a number of my sites over from GoLive CS2 to
Dreamweaver CS3. All the sites seem fine but when I go to look at
any pages in the Design pane (they use a template) of one of my
sites, the table is collapsed. (Yes, I am using nested tables
because of the way my shop is set up with my eCommerce.) But if I
can see everything fine in GoLive's Layout Tab then why can I not
see it in Dreamweaver like that.
Screen Print of GoLive
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/6554/8pawgolivexf2.jpg
Screen Print of Dreamweaver
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/8849/8ppawsdwsl7.jpg
Can you please view the source code at
http://www.8pawsup.com and find
where the problem may be. Or, if it is just a setting in
Dreamweaver, please let me know because, like I said before, my
other sites are fine in both except for this one. That is why I am
leaning towards it being a coding problem.
Thanks!

One of your most useful debugging tools is to validate the
page before
anything else.
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> You are too awesome! I was sure it was just an oversight
on my template!
>
> Thanks a ton!

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Problem with Design View in DW5

I've recently inherited responsibility for my group's website (despite the fact that I'm kind of a noob at all this) and am dealing with an interesting challenge that I hope someone can help me with.
It seems that our pages are based on a number of templates that for some reason were not saved along with the rest of the site. Short term this is not a huge issue, as the pages have the source code from the templates embedded in them, but this code is not editable and I can't figure out a way to override the fact that I'm "locked out" from making any changes (at least from within Dreamweaver). Up to now I've just been editing the pages individually in Komodo, which is tedious but not horrible, given that our site isn't that big, but it's clearly no way to do business in the long term.
So I'm trying to re-engineer some templates that I can work with. What I did was use Komodo to strip away all of the template-related language from one of the site pages, and re-imported the code back into Dreamweaver, in the hope that I can then save that as a new template. I'm close, but not quite there. My problem is that DW's Design View isn't rendering the page properly, even though it displays fine in Live View and in browsers. Maybe this isn't a huge deal, but it's really bugging me because: 1) I do rely on Design View, since I'm not an experienced programmer; and 2) I'm kind of anal retentive.
To see what I'm talking about, here is the page I used as the foundation for creating a new template:
http://iodp.ldeo.columbia.edu/TOOLS_LABS/TRIPLE/aps.html
... and here is my new "template" (although I haven't saved it yet as a DW template):
http://iodp.ldeo.columbia.edu/TOOLS_LABS/TRIPLE/test3.html
The second page displays correctly in Live View, Safari and Firefox, but not in DW's Design View, where it looks like this, at least on my computer:
As you can see, there's an odd "break" between the banner image and the menus on the left, and the body of the page, which should appear to the right of the menus on the left, is instead underneath them. I'm at a loss as to why the same code displays properly for the first page, but not the second.
I guess my questions are as follows:
1) Does anyone else get the same messed up display in DW's design view if they import the second page into DW?
2) And if so, can you pinpoint where the problem is?
I hope I've explained this clearly and would really be grateful for help. Thanks!

Validate your code and fix errors. #1 problem is the lack of a valid Document Type Declaration (DTD) on line 1 of HTML code.
Code Validation Tools
CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
HTML - http://validator.w3.org/
To add a DTD in DW:
Go to Modify > Page Properties > Title/Encoding.
Select document type from drop list. I recommend HTML 4.0 Transitional.
Hit Apply & OK.
Repeat Steps 1 - 3 on remaining site pages.
I'm not a huge fan of DW Templates (.dwt). I don't know how big your site is but it might be simpler to disconnect from Templates, giving you freedom to edit anything you wish. Then use Server-Side Includes (SSIs) for common site wide elements such as menus, headers & footers.
The great thing about SSIs is that you only need to edit one file, save it and upload to server. Site pages are automatically updated by the server. With Templates, you have to upload every child page each time you change your template. Even on small sites, this is tedious.
Server-Side Includes
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/server_side_includes.asp
More on Server-Side Includes
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2112460#2112460
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
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Link to CSS problem (in Design View)

Hello Dreamweaver experts,
In the Design View Dreamweaver CS3 is not picking up the
styles specified in a linked stylesheet. Let me explain...
I am using an application in our office that relies upon HTML
(but does not use a standard web browser).
I need to refer to linked stylesheets using a variable like
so;
[example #1]
<link href="{FILES_DIR}/path/css/stylesheet.css"
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
The use of the variable construction "{FILES_DIR}" eliminates
the need to hard code a drive letter into the link which is
preferrable. Without "{FILES_DIR}" I have to hard-code the drive
letter like so;
[example #2]
<link
href="file:///K|/additional-path-details/path/css/stylesheet.css"
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" -->
Both examples above yield the same result in the application
(the stylesheet is found and its styles properly applied).
However, only with example #2 does Dreamweaver's "design
view" pick up and apply the stylesheet. Dreamweaver cannot find the
stylesheet or apply its styles using example #1.
My question is how can I make Dreamweaver understand and
apply what "{FILES_DIR}" means.
Any tips, tricks or pointers would be most welcome...

"horse.badorties" <[email protected]> wrote
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> Hello Dreamweaver experts,
>
> In the Design View Dreamweaver CS3 is not picking up the
styles specified
> in a
> linked stylesheet. Let me explain...
>
> I am using an application in our office that relies upon
HTML (but does
> not
> use a standard web browser).
>
> I need to refer to linked stylesheets using a variable
like so;
>
>
[example #1]
> <link href="{FILES_DIR}/path/css/stylesheet.css"
rel="stylesheet"
> type="text/css" />
>
> The use of the variable construction "{FILES_DIR}"
eliminates the need to
> hard
> code a drive letter into the link which is preferrable.
Without
> "{FILES_DIR}"
> I have to hard-code the drive letter like so;
>
>
[example #2]
> <link
href="file:///K|/additional-path-details/path/css/stylesheet.css"
> rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" -->
>
> Both examples above yield the same result in the
application (the
> stylesheet
> is found and its styles properly applied).
>
> However, only with example #2 does Dreamweaver's "design
view" pick up and
> apply the stylesheet. Dreamweaver cannot find the
stylesheet or apply its
> styles using example #1.
Did you look into "design-time" styles sheets? That may solve
your problem.
It won't take care of the path in the document though...
Thierry
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Layout Problems in Design View

Our wedsites use server side includes that control the way
the page is laid out. My design view is not laid out the way it
should be. If I go to the preview, it is perfect, but from the
design view in Dreamweaver things are out of order. My navigation
menu is hanging over my text, and I can't seem to get it to
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DW is perhaps confused by your doctype which seems to be
suggesting both
XHTML Strict and XHTML Transitional -
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict"
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
I would say fix that, and the other validation errors from
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and then we'll look at the page again.....
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>I can show you what is is suppose to look like. If you go
to the page
>below
> you can see what the pages look like online. My problem
is, in design
> view of
> dreamweaver, the information about section to the left
is placed over the
> information to the right. Then all of it is shifted to
the left.
>
>
http://www.ualr.edu/admissions/
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Problems using ECL Viewer to display multipage TIFF Files

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>> Everything works fine till here.<<
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Hi,
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The output is fine and as expected, so I am presuming that it isn't the CSS. Which I haven't edited for eons anyway so it really shouldn't be that anyway.
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null

Hi (Miss?) Donna,
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Donna Pinkerton (guest) wrote:
: We are using Designer 2.1 to Generate VB 5.0 which we are
: actually bringing into and opening up in VB 6.0. We are
running
: into problems with the controls gauge32.ocx and threed32.ocx.
We
: retrieved copies of the ocxs, but we can't put them on our NT
: machines.
: I've seen documentation that indicates we need Oracle Objects
: also, is this true?
: Any information on any issue relating to VB 5.0/6.0 generation
: out of Designer would be appreciated!
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Page display correctly in IE7 browser but not in design view.
Right sidebar is appearing in the middle of the page. Page is using
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jdrhost wrote:
> Page display correctly in IE7 browser but not in design
view. Right sidebar is
> appearing in the middle of the page. Page is using CSS
and the div is using
> float left.
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browser is the only accurate check of how a design will be
rendered.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
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Hi All,
I don't know why i can't display the designer view. Anybody can help me?
or if you want more information, i can tell you.
Regards,
Luke

Hi Luke,
Designe veiw means you are not getting layout??
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Still not getting, your sys not configured properly.. Check FQDN
http://help.sap.com/SAPHELP_NW04S/helpdata/en/67/be9442572e1231e10000000a1550b0/content.htm
and Goto SICF transaction activate relevant services..
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp1/helpdata/en/46/d28dfa34bb12bee10000000a1553f7/content.htm
Also cehck HOST name..
view layout is not displaying, ( The page cannot be displayed)
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Okay,
I have been trying to use Adobe Reader to read many different PDF files on many different computers. I want to restore to the last view that I was looking at.
I followed the instructions and went to "Edit...Preferences...Documents...(Open Settings) Restore last view setting when reopening documents" and enabled this.
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I read somewhere that when files are saved it can cause it to restore to the first page, but I am only using the same document for which I (to the best of my knowledge) am not making and saving changes to. I even went so far as to disabled all the Save options, but still this did not solve the problem.
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Eric

Nils, this forum is dedicated to general topics related to Business Objects solutions. Your query appear to be related to .NET development. Please post this query to the .NET Development - Crystal Reports forum:
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Hai,
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