Web design help needed with Dreamweaver

Lightingbird · May 3, 2009

So annoyed with this problem.

I'm not much of a CSS website maker but I figured I'd give it a try. I'm very familiar with HTML and moderate java but new to CSS. I've just bought the domain spartansupport.com for a business venture. I've found a a template that I downloaded to edit in Dreamweaver. Here is the template:

http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/bestfriends

I plan on editing the words and images. I just like the setup of this template. So I downloaded that file. Then I had to open the index file in the zip file I downloaded to get the full CSS code. At this point, I'm lost. I know how to edit the code but I'm having all kinds of problems. I need help editing the webpage and getting it set up on my website. I'm using this on a 32bit Vista OS and using Dreamweaver cs3. I'm open to another CSS editor since I'm having such a hard time.

My first problem is I am not able to preview my code in either internet explorer or firefox. I've editing it several times and even mapped the browsers myself. I've already defined my site but no matter what I do my selections are greyed out. Any way to fix this?

DelJo63 · May 3, 2009

First, that template is a FRAMESET, which are more difficult that simple HTML:

Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
	<title>Template Preview (bestfriends) - Free CSS Templates</title>
	<meta name="keywords" content="" />
	<meta name="description" content="" />
	[COLOR="Red"]<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/site/style.css" />[/COLOR]
</head>

<[B]frameset[/B] rows="93,*">
	<frame scrolling="no" src="/preview/x/bestfriends" />
	<frame src="/preview/y/bestfriends" />
</[B]frameset[/B]>
</html>

Second, that link for the stylesheet *MUST* be included in every < frame > as well as this page

big boo boo imo in the implementation)

Lastly, to enable you to test on your PC without an upload to ANY webserver,
do not use this form

Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href=[COLOR="Red"]"/site/style.css"[/COLOR] />

but rather use a RELATIVE location like

Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" [B]href="./style.css" />[/B]

which will cause your browser to look in the same directory as the source TEST.HTML page.

Highly recommend you learn CSS w/o framesets first and then move to framesets later when you're more comfortable

deazy86 · May 19, 2009

Jobeard has suggested the right thing you should do it in the same manner it will work.

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