Member Avatar for littlemt

Hi,

I have a web page created in Dreamweaver CS4. I have an image header that I have made work through CSS.

The header looks great in the browser and in live view.

Can't see it at all in Dreamweaver design view.

I want to make a hot spot, but can't when I can't see it.

I'm sure there is a super easy solution...sorry, but I have been trying to figure it out for days.

Here is the code if that helps.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
<title>Sweet Little Pig Design - Full Service Web and Print Design</title>
<link href="main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="../main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<div id="header">
<div id="in_header"><img src="images/clear_head.png" border=0 />
</div>

</div>
</head>

<body>

<div id="container">
<div id="in_container">

<div id="nav">
<ul id="navbar">
	<li> <a href="print.html"> Print </a></li>
    <li> <a href="web.html"> Web </a></li>
    <li> <a href="photo.html"> Photography </a></li>
    <li><a href="stuff.html"> Other stuff </a> </li></ul>
</div>
<div id="flash_content">Here is where I put the slide show</div></div>
<div id="footer"><b>Sweet Little Pig Designs<br />
p: (206) 227-3380 <br />
<a href="mailto:info@mywebsite.com">info@mywebsite.com</a></b>

</div>
</div>



</body>
</html>

Thanks for reading.

Littlemt

Edited by peter_budo because: Keep It Clear - Do wrap your programming code blocks within [code] ... [/code] tags
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Member Avatar for Kraai

Hi, I think there is a setting in Dreamweaver you must set to view external images in design view, something like: VIEW | Display External Files?

Hope this helps!

Member Avatar for littlemt

Hi Kraai,

Thanks so much for your help. I tried your suggestion of selecting/deselecting of the "display external file" option. It didn't work. Nothing seemed to happen.

Any other suggestions anyone?

Littlemt

Member Avatar for chrisbrandon

I may be off base on this. I am still new to DW and css, but this is what I see.

The head area is used by the browser. Your "header" needs to appear within the body tags. Something like this...

...
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="container">
  <div id="header"><!-- beginheader name="header"--><img src="../assets/free.jpg" width="960" height="147" alt="free_in_brampton_banner" /><!-- "endheader name="header--></div>
  <div id="menu_sidebar"><ul>
...

This is a small snippit of code, I hope it is easy to understand.
I am not sure if this is the correct method, (I invite a more experienced coder to comment),but it does work for me.

Edited by peter_budo because: Keep It Clear - Do wrap your programming code blocks within [code] ... [/code] tags
commented: good spotting +3
Member Avatar for littlemt

AH HA!! Thanks so much chrisbrandon. That fixed the problem.

Thanks so much!

Littlemt

Member Avatar for chrisbrandon

Thank you for letting me know. As stated, I am still learning. We newbies need to help each other. I find helping others solve problems helps me perfect the craft.

Member Avatar for littlemt

I agree chirsbrandon! Thanks again for your help. I was stuck on that for days :)

Member Avatar for Rosa2303

i also agree with litt

Member Avatar for smrprojects

In Dreamweaver Go to View, Style Rendering and select Display Styles, then you can see preview of your page in design view

Member Avatar for edith135

I also agree with you ....chrisbrandon...... you take a good sugg.

Member Avatar for smrprojects

Ya Chris is right header div needs to be out of head and between body..:), sorry didn't check the html code earlier, so posted different solution earlier..

In Dreamweaver Go to View, Style Rendering and select Display Styles, then you can see preview of your page in design view

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