I have a plain HTML DreamweaverMX template that I have created using layers. The final layer I created will not appear on the linked pages when I look at it on the live site (or the test site for that matter) no matter how hard I try. Other changes I make such as textual changes appear but nothing that is on this layer. The layer in question contains text only (five words in fact). I do not have prevent overlaps turned on.
I have tried recreating it, moving it, reapplying templates to the pages but to no avail.
This has happened to me twice now. The last time I recreated the template from scratch and redid all pages as Macromedia Tech Support could not help me. I do not want to do that again.
I am using DreamweaverMX 6.01 on a G4 Mac running OS 10.2.6.
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Thank you for everyone's comments. I am the first to admit that I am no expert on DW. Or web pages for that matter. I am using layers because from my limited knowledge when I started this project it seemed the best solution. What I am trying to do is a very basic, plain html template that has a header, a side navigation menu and an editable area of body copy. No flash, rollovers, asp or anything that requires users to download anything.
Interesting to note, NEW pages created from the template work ok. It seemed to stop working on the old pages about a week ago.
I can recreate the template using tables an redo all the text (all 72 pages of it) but would rather not if I can avoid it at all.
the url is http://www.quickcut.com.au
the link to a new page that shows what it is mean to look like is;
http://www.quickcut.com.au
All pages are linked to the same template.
There is probably some really easy solution...
hello lilybella,
i guess that the problem now is whith old html pages that u wana apply the existing template to it.
here is how it goes:
oopen the existing html page, choose modigy->template->apply template to page.
Insonsistent region names dialoug appears.
u should move the contents to the approperiate editable regions.
if ur page contains layers u should choose:
Name Resolved
Document Body ur editable region in template
Document Head head
the document head appears because DW adds a function to ur head when u insert any layer into ur page.
if it didn't work, then the code contains something wrong, u will have to post the code here to figure out the code error.
concerning the last error, is the template read only? do u use anti virus program or something?
hope this helps,
kanary
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by: kanaryPosted on 2003-07-20 at 23:38:55ID: 8965315
hello lilybella,
did u check the z-index of the layer, it should be higher to be over other layers.
if the templates looks fine, but the applied pages doesn't respond, make sure that u run the update all pages command.
paste the template code here, so that i can c it a figure out where the error come from.
kanary