Viewing Images in Design view

Well I've been working on my site prior to getting
dreamweaver, and I open the .html of one of my pages, but it
doesn't show anything but the images in a grey box and text in
tables. When I preview in a browser it looks perfect though, is
design view supposed to be like this? Also whether it makes a
difference or not, the .html is already uploaded on my site so my
image links are www.website.com/img/image.gif
I also included a screenshot, just incase I don't make sense.
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/3197/dreamweaverdesignviewerni4.jpg

Which DW and which OS?
Is VIEW | Display External Files checked?
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"terry_cpac" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I too have been experiencing this problem only recently.
I have been using
>DW
> to create eNewsletters, so all images are located on a
web server. I use
> the
> whole file path including the
http://www. etc. for all images and
> graphics. The
> Design view pane used to display these images with no
problems until
> recently.
> Now, no matter what I do, I can't get it to access any
image to display in
> the
> design view pane. This has been causing DW to hang every
time I try to
> open a
> file with images referenced this way. I hope there is a
solution to this
> problem.
>

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"Diodeus" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I have many sites that have root relative image paths
> (src="\images\sample.gif") that I've coded by hand in
DW8.
>
> I don't use design view that much, buy one of our
designers does. The
> problem
> is none of the images with root-relative paths will
appear in design view.
>
> I have specified valid paths in my site definitions, so
what's the issue?
>

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"Chris200" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I know this has been asked before and I've searched out
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> through to make sure I had everything in line before I
asked.
>
> 1.) "Display External Files" is checked in the View menu
> 2.) The files are stored on a server AND I have them on
my local hard
> drive. I
> have the proper path i.e. <img
> src="
http://www.blahblahblah.com/image/whatever......>
>
> I have other files on my local drive and my server and I
put those image
> paths
> in there and they show just fine. But now it seems no
matter the type of
> file I
> save from either PS or Ai Dreamweaver can't find the
file????
>
> All that I see right now is the little gray 32x32 box
with the ripped
> paper
> looking thing on it...
>
> Here is the site:
http://www.buscovoice.com/
>
> You can see in the code that the image is showing in the
source.
>
> Anyone have a clue??????
>

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