Let me try and make this as simple as I can.

1. I bought a template off the net for like $80. I planned on using that template to create my own site.

2. I started editing it with FrontPage 2003. Iv been doing quite a bit actually but still have a ways to go.

3. I recently got Dreamweaver and wanted to start using that instead of FP. But when I open up any of my pages, I cannot edit them using the "design" mode, I can only edit using "code" and I do not know code. I am a very young newbie and code is like trying to read japanese or something...


when I open in DW, and have the split view, you can see all the code at the top just fine, but on the bottom all you can see is a copyright box

Copyright © 2002-2005 Awards & Beyond.com
Use of this website is subject to our Terms and Conditions.
All logos, service marks and trademarks belong to their respective owners


that is displayed at the bottom of my site, but i can only view that in DW, in FP i can view the entire page just fine....

im not sure what the problem is, but id really like to be able to edit/create my site using DW.... can anyone take a look at this and let me know what the problem might be? thanks

i have attached my index page, wont worry about images and all that but maybe u can find something in the code that might be problem???

here you go.

some of the table tags were improperly closed and opened.

fixed them. now this should work

let know

dude you are SOOOOOOO awesome!!! thank you VERY much!!!

could u tell me exactly where the problem is? i have about 10-15 pages complete and i just used this page as a template, so all of my pages are having the same problem... if i could just go into the code and delete the specific parts, that be best rather than redoing them all..

one more time, THANK YOU!!!!!!!

np

cant say one place.

there are many improperly closed tags.

what you can do is, after opening this in dreamweaver, do a clean up html via commands

and then go into code view, you will see the improper tags highlighted in yellow.

delete one by one and see how the page looks.

dont, dont, delete all the tags without checking the page.

sometimes if a previous tag is not closed properly the subsequent ones will also show as faulty.

alternate, if you have used this as a template (dreamweaver template) its relatively easy to change the others. thats if you know the dreamweaver templating functionality and you are using it.

anything let know and good luck

well when i do the command-clean up HTML it doesnt do anything, i guess because you have already cleaned it up.

i then pulled up one of my other pages that you didnt fix, did that command, clean up and it didnt do anything either, but like this one was, it cannot be viewed.

when i said i used this as a template, i didnt actually do a template option, i just opened a previous page and started minipulating it...

my homepage (index) looks a little different than the rest, the rest of the pages all look VERY similar to this page thats attached... how do I go about cleaning it up?

okay, sorry to be a pain, but i have found 2 things that changed on this new index file you fixed...

http://www.awardsbeyond.homestead.com/


there is what it should look like, when i open the one you made, i preivew it in DW there are 2 things I notice wrong..

1. the entire page isnt 'centered' on my screen, its to the left
2. at the bottom where the copyright info is, there is no longer that green box there


im sure these are VERY simple fixes, but like i said before im VERY new to this and still learning... i basically have to have a good page to begin with and just change text/images as i go.. something like this comes up missing and im lost!!!

Originally Posted by 00Bolt

okay, sorry to be a pain, but i have found 2 things that changed on this new index file you fixed...

http://www.awardsbeyond.homestead.com/


there is what it should look like, when i open the one you made, i preivew it in DW there are 2 things I notice wrong..

1. the entire page isnt 'centered' on my screen, its to the left
2. at the bottom where the copyright info is, there is no longer that green box there


im sure these are VERY simple fixes, but like i said before im VERY new to this and still learning... i basically have to have a good page to begin with and just change text/images as i go.. something like this comes up missing and im lost!!!

1. just add a <center> after <body>

and </center> before </body>

2. the image is there so it should display.

tables tables tables tables

i had my share of tables for the weekend.

wow!! so many nests

here you both the files

updated and should be working fine.

thanks, i got it all to center... but still that green line doesnt show up for some reason...

could you do me one last favor...

could yu look at that signature html page and tell me what the errors are in it so i can fix it and either use that as my template to remake all my other pages, or try and learn and just fix the problems in the other pages?

thanks a million, and i promise ill leave u alone after this

there are some td tags which are closed improperly

in 2 lines you will see

<tr></td></tr>

these 2 lines are missing a <td>

it should look like
<tr><td></td></tr>



and some font tags are improperly placed.

in the marquee, you have <font ....><u>........</u>......</marquee> and then you got the font closing.

instead the font should be closed after </u>

once these are fixed most of the page is visible and its a matter of fixing the attributes. thats all.

thanks, ill see if i can figure that all out.... that green box shows up on all my other pages, just not the index page for some reason...

just copy that row and paste it in the index page and see.

its the last row before the copyright stuff

I had the same problem with a website that was created by someone else. Whe I tried to use the edit view in dreamwaver, all I could see was the footer information. I deleted some of the improperly closed tags, and the problem was fixed. The information on this post was very helpful. Thank you guys....