New pages made From Template messed up!

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:30:58 -0500, "Murray *ACE*"
<forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote:

This appears normal. The folder "Cambodia Kids" is the root folder of the
site. However your previous post makes it look like you are on a Mac - yet
this page shows PC-type paths. Which is it?

Actually, it looks like a Mac path:

img src="file:///D's 200/Users/andrews/Documents/ Websites/Cambodia
Kids/Images/Page11/MBike2.jpg" width="160" height="213" alt="Mountain Bike" /

I suspect the single quote between D and s may be causing the problem,
but I know zilch about Mac's. ;-)

Gary

Could be right....

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"Gary White" <reply (AT) newsgroup (DOT) please> wrote

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:30:58 -0500, "Murray *ACE*"
forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote:

This appears normal. The folder "Cambodia Kids" is the root folder of the
site. However your previous post makes it look like you are on a Mac -
yet
this page shows PC-type paths. Which is it?


Actually, it looks like a Mac path:

img src="file:///D's 200/Users/andrews/Documents/ Websites/Cambodia
Kids/Images/Page11/MBike2.jpg" width="160" height="213" alt="Mountain
Bike" /

I suspect the single quote between D and s may be causing the problem,
but I know zilch about Mac's. ;-)

Gary

Hello,

Read through both the latest suggestions and decided to try getting rid of the
single quote first as it was the easiest to do. I am on a Mac by the way...

Well, that solved the problem. Changed my hard disk name from D's 200 to just
D 200. After that I had to reset the site root folder but now pages made from
the template are correctly formatted...

Thank you so much for this excellent troubleshooting experience. I guess this
single quote problem would be considered a bug (surely single quotes should be
allowed in the names of hard disks???) as I don't ever remember Apple saying
don't use single quotes when naming a hard disk...

Should I/we report it to Adobe? I would be happy to. I don't know how these
forums work but it might be an idea to post a topic/sticky with appropriate
keywords so that others will be made aware of it easily.

One remaining question. In the template, I used Modify/Page Properties to add
a background to it. When I make a new page from the template, the background
does not appear. Is that normal or should it appear?

Thanks so much.

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 04:13:55 +0000 (UTC), "Peace Freak"
<webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote:

Well, that solved the problem. Changed my hard disk name from D's 200 to just
D 200. After that I had to reset the site root folder but now pages made from
the template are correctly formatted...

Hurray!

Thank you so much for this excellent troubleshooting experience. I guess this
single quote problem would be considered a bug (surely single quotes should be
allowed in the names of hard disks???) as I don't ever remember Apple saying
don't use single quotes when naming a hard disk...

It's a well known issue that Mac users often use punctuation and/or
other unusual characters in drive/path names and that tends to cause
problems for some portions of Adobe applications. That's why you were
asked to post the code from that image in an unsaved page. The src
attribute of the img tag will show the complete path.

Should I/we report it to Adobe? I would be happy to. I don't know how these
forums work but it might be an idea to post a topic/sticky with appropriate
keywords so that others will be made aware of it easily.

You can report it at http://adobe.com/go/wish/ (the same form is used
for bug reports and feature requests. Like I said, it's a fairly well
known issue, but more reports of a bug sometimes tend to work like votes
to fix it. The more reports they get, the more likely it will be
addressed.

One remaining question. In the template, I used Modify/Page Properties to add
a background to it. When I make a new page from the template, the background
does not appear. Is that normal or should it appear?

It's not normal, but I'd have to see the code to hazard a guess at what
the problem might be.

Gary

I have just submitted a bug report...

For the background image not appearing problem, I take it you would need to
see the code of the template page.

Should I post it here? It is about 10 pages in length... Or can you suggest
another way.

Thanks!

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 05:49:44 +0000 (UTC), "Peace Freak"
<webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote:

Should I post it here? It is about 10 pages in length... Or can you suggest
another way.

Upload it somewhere and post a link to it is usually the best way.
Trying to post it here often results in the code being truncated due to
length limitations, or the web forum software otherwise mangles it.

Thanks!

You're welcome.

Gary

Hello,

Thanks again. I zipped it and have posted it here:

http://www.cambodiakids.org/Template02.dwt.asp.zip

I am new to Dreamweaver so if you see anything else weird, please let me know...

Well, that solved the problem. Changed my hard disk name from D's 200 to
just
D 200. After that I had to reset the site root folder but now pages made
from
the template are correctly formatted...

If it would be considered a bug, then many programs would have it! As a
general rule of thumb, it's best to avoid any characters in your
file/pathnames other than letters, numbers, and hyphens/underscores. That
would eliminate spaces, quotes, ampersands, parentheses, etc.

One remaining question. In the template, I used Modify/Page Properties to
add
a background to it. When I make a new page from the template, the
background
does not appear. Is that normal or should it appear?

It should appear, so there must be something wrong in the resulting code.
Can we see it?

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"Peace Freak" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hello,

Read through both the latest suggestions and decided to try getting rid of
the
single quote first as it was the easiest to do. I am on a Mac by the
way...

Well, that solved the problem. Changed my hard disk name from D's 200 to
just
D 200. After that I had to reset the site root folder but now pages made
from
the template are correctly formatted...

Thank you so much for this excellent troubleshooting experience. I guess
this
single quote problem would be considered a bug (surely single quotes
should be
allowed in the names of hard disks???) as I don't ever remember Apple
saying
don't use single quotes when naming a hard disk...

Should I/we report it to Adobe? I would be happy to. I don't know how
these
forums work but it might be an idea to post a topic/sticky with
appropriate
keywords so that others will be made aware of it easily.

One remaining question. In the template, I used Modify/Page Properties to
add
a background to it. When I make a new page from the template, the
background
does not appear. Is that normal or should it appear?

Thanks so much.

Please don't zip it. Just upload the page, and post a link.

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Adobe Community Expert
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"Peace Freak" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hello,

Thanks again. I zipped it and have posted it here:

http://www.cambodiakids.org/Template02.dwt.asp.zip

I am new to Dreamweaver so if you see anything else weird, please let me
know...

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 07:29:32 +0000 (UTC), "Peace Freak"
<webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote:

Thanks again. I zipped it and have posted it here:

What Murray said. ;-)

Gary