Hi-
I'm attempting to learn Dreamweaver and have a very basic question for anyone kind enough to answer. I'm creating a site using tables (I will eventually learn CSS once I'm up to speed, but understanding tables seems easier for me to get my head around right now).

I created my site map, linking all pages with reciprical links before adding content. Once these links were established and I could see them in the site map I double clicked the index.html document to begin designing the home page. I created a table that was easy and usable for my design. After adding content (mostly images, some text) I decided to preview it in a browser (Firefox, not that it matters). All I saw was the blank white document with only the underlined links type for each link I'd previously set up in the site map. No table, no images.

What am I missing here? I assumed I was to create the home page directly in the index document window. Is this not so? Or do I create the page design elsewhere? What do I do with the links?

I'm confused. Please provide any insight you can.
Thanks.

It may help if you add a link to your page?

Try and upload the pages so that we can see them. Try viewing the page source and see if it is coded or not.

Learning to do things with tables now is just going to hurt you later. If you're serious about doing this type of thing, I would learn CSS box-model layouts ASAP, before bad-habits are formed.

You think tables are easy, but there is still a learning curve, which takes effort that is better spent elsewhere.

I have to agree 100% with Wayfarer, UNlearning tables is more of a problem than learning CSS right from the start. It's a completely different approach when laying out a site with CSS, and far too many people get mired in the tables mindset and have more trouble moving away from them.

If you're seeing nothing on a page, make sure that you have the closing </table> tag, that is often a source of the behavior you describe - that and other code errors. Validate your HTML and see what it tells you.

Check for other missing tags too </TD></TR>

Some browsers care others don't.

Also check your foreground and background color choices.
And your text color choices.

Make sure you haven't chosen the same color for background and text.

You may also want to check that you have the correct image file paths to the images in your page. Whenever I create something in dreamweaver, and after I upload it to my server, the image file paths all have the paths from my computer to the image, and not the path of the images on the server. If you are previewing directly from dreamweaver on your local computer, make sure you havn't moved any of the images on your computer to a different folderwhile you were designing, as it will still be looking in the same location for the image before you moved it. Also if you switched file names while designing, this will cause a problem as it it still looking for the original file name.

Dreamweaver should have a setting for virtual location of files.....
so it does ../imagedirectory/filename.htm for you

Just make sure the directory names and locations are the same on your PC and your server.

Hasn't anyone noticed that RichLather only has 1 post, and hasn't been back? Who are you trying to help?

Dreamweaver is simple HTML editor

I would start learning CSS right now while you are still in the design phase, or else you may never switch over. They are not necessarily compatible, they are different means to a similar goal.

i agree with everyone above. only restrict table use to display data.. otherwise design-wise its much better for you in the short and the long run to learn css.

its like learning how to add. you can either use a calculator, or start learning the "real" way to do it.

Im also brand new to Dreamweaver 8. From South Africa, and its just plain hot here, cant think so nicely as I would of liked to. In the month of Feb im starting study in D W 8, but for now I need to get fimiliar with html and css.... now can anyone please, please link me a site, or just tell me, the best on this internet of the world (haha), I can get a site, that can show me basic html, css and coldfusion, javascript and all those things, in basic english > code then code > english.

Thanks people.

NV_NUKEZ as most people have said start with CSS & HTML - trying to learn coldfusion and javascript at the same time will be a huge undertaking.

there are many site sout there thast offer really good tutorials on CSS - http://www.alistapart.com/topics/code/css/ is one of them (you might have to dig a bit ) and http://www.positioniseverything.net/ .
im sure someone will have some exact links to the tableless layouts in these...

hELLO, I'm alanis. I know that it can be a little bit dumb, but I don't understand what is dreamweaver? I'm so sorry, but I'm just a beginner here, so all suggetions will be helpful for me. thanks!

anyway, I'm going to visit the link , and if I have doubts, I'll let you know!

Originally Posted by alanis79sc

hELLO, I'm alanis. I know that it can be a little bit dumb, but I don't understand what is dreamweaver? I'm so sorry, but I'm just a beginner here, so all suggetions will be helpful for me. thanks!

anyway, I'm going to visit the link , and if I have doubts, I'll let you know!

Hi Alanis, Dreamweaver 8 is a simple but effective website/webpage design program. Even though Im having probs at studying the basic codes, its still an effective tool at designing. Heres the origanel site for D W 8... http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/