Blank Design View ???

smuger · October 11th, 2004, 03:53 PM

Apologies in advance if this is a basic one, but I'm getting there...
I have completed up to page 81 with page design etc. All was working when I tested on local, remote and testing, thought I'd call it a night, saved, then come back the next morning to no luck.

The code is all in place and when I preview in browser all works fine, but when I switch to design view I get a blank index page with nothing ???

Any ideas ?

Current settings are all as per book.

TIA

Tom

Imar · October 11th, 2004, 03:57 PM

What version of the book are you using?

Maybe it's better to post in the book's forum, located here: http://p2p.wrox.com/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=19

If you do post there, please specify the version of the book (MX or MX 2004). Can you also post the *entire* code for the page so we can take a look?

Sometimes Dreamweaver displays an area that appears (theoretically) next to your page. SO the entire viewport has been shift one page to the left. To have the content appear again, press Ctrl+Home, or use the scrollbars to get your page back into the viewport. Not sure if that's the problem though.....

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

smuger · October 11th, 2004, 04:23 PM

Hi,

Am using "DW MX"

Current Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

<head>
<title>The Cooking Place Home Page</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="Keywords" content="french, food, italian, italy, france, american, cuisine, receipes, wally, gherkin, specials" />
<meta name="Description" content="This site is dedicated to the running of gherkin eating competitions and wally throwing. Please mention all the choas that happens here to your friends..." />
</head>

<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background="Images/topbkg.gif">
  <tr>
    <td width="50%" height="51"><img src="Images/topleft.gif" width="290" height="51" /></td>
    <td width="50%"><div align="center"><strong>The
        Cooking Place</strong></div></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td width="257" valign="top" background="Images/sidebkg.gif"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
        <tr>
          <td><img src="Images/topleft2.gif" width="257" height="112"></td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
        <tr valign="top">
          <td width="50%" background="Images/rightsidebkg.gif"><img src="Images/topleft3.gif" width="195" height="75"><br>
            <img src="Images/buttonblank.gif" width="181" height="31"><br>
            <img src="Images/buttonblank.gif" width="181" height="31"><br>
            <img src="Images/buttonblank.gif" width="181" height="31"><br>
            <img src="Images/buttonblank.gif" width="181" height="31"> </td>
          <td width="50%"><img src="Images/page.gif" width="59" height="199"></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
    <td width="99%" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
        <tr>
          <td width="1%" valign="top"><img src="Images/leftcorn.gif" width="28" height="22"></td>
          <td width="98%"> </td>
          <td width="1%" align="right" valign="top"><img src="Images/rightcorn.gif" width="28" height="22"></td>
        </tr>
      </table>
    </td>
    <td width="1%" background="Images/rightsidebkg.gif"><img src="Images/rightsidebkg.gif" width="24" height="31"></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background="Images/botbkg.gif">
  <tr>
    <td width="50%"><img src="Images/botleft.gif" width="235" height="40"></td>
    <td width="50%"><div align="right"><img src="Images/botright.gif" width="69" height="40"></div></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Thanks

Tom

Imar · October 11th, 2004, 04:30 PM

The opening <html> tag is missing.

Remove the <xml> declaration, and replace it with a proper <html> tag.

HtH,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

smuger · October 11th, 2004, 04:40 PM

Simple but effective,

many thanks,

Tom