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    newbie help please: importing DW designs

    hi everyone, i'm a new developer to the designer actinic package and could really do with a bit of help on things if you dont mind...

    i did the actinic designer course and one of the first things is importing a dw design, now it all works fine and dandy with the example files provided from the course, but my design just wont clip on, it misses out all sorts of elements and is is getting quite frustrating, i have tried creating the same design using different methods but i cant get it all in as simple as was implied in the training...

    if i post the very simple html file that i am trying to import maybe someone here can tell me why it isn't getting into actinic:

    Code:
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <title>Untitled Document</title>
    
    <style type="text/css">
    
    * {
      padding: 0; margin: 0;
      }
    
    #container {
      padding-top: 20px;
      width: 803px;
      margin: 0 auto;
      height: 100%;
      }
        
    #header {
      height: 122px;
      width: 100%;
      background: url(header.png) no-repeat top;
      }
      
    #main {
      position: relative;
      height: 100%;
      width: 100%;
      background: url(borderback.png) repeat-y;
      }
    
    #mainsplash {
      position: absolute;
      background: url(mainsplash.png) no-repeat;
      width: 140px;
      height: 181px;
      top: 0;
      left: 0px;
      z-index: 5;
      }
    
    #navbar {
      height: 30px;
      width: 100%;
      border: dashed 1px solid #0099CC;
      z-index: 8;
      }
    
    #leftcolumn {
      float: left;
      width: 150px;
      margin: 7px; padding: 0;
      }
      
    #rightcolumn {
      float: left;
      width: 625px;
      margin: 7px; padding: 0;
      }
    
    #footersplash {
      position: absolute;
      background: url(minisplash.png) no-repeat bottom right;
      width: 45px;
      height: 64px;
      bottom: 0;
      right: 0;
      }
    
    #footer {
      height: 25px;
      width: 100%;
      background: url(footer.png) no-repeat bottom;
      }
    
    </style>
    
    </head>
    
    <body>
    
    <div id="container">
      <div id="header">
    	&nbsp;
      </div>
      <div id="main">
    	<div id="navbar">
    	</div>
    	<div id="content">
    	  <div id="leftcolumn">
    	  </div>
    	  <div id="rightcolumn">
    	  </div>
    	</div>
    	<!--<div id="mainsplash"></div>
    	<div id="footersplash"></div>-->
      </div>
      <div id="footer">
    	&nbsp;
      </div>
    </div>
    
    </body>
    </html>
    obviously i have not added the actinic stuff into the design yet, i cant get that far

    help very much appreciated...

    #2
    Have you installed the Dreamweaver Actinic extension? Are you using the Actinic menu within Dreamweaver?

    Have you read the Dreamweaver section of the Getting Started Guide?
    Bill
    www.egyptianwonders.co.uk
    Text directoryWorldwide Actinic(TM) shops
    BC Ness Solutions Support services, custom software
    Registered Microsoft™ Partner (ISV)
    VoIP UK: 0131 208 0605
    Located: Alexandria, EGYPT

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      #3
      Originally posted by wjcampbe
      Have you installed the Dreamweaver Actinic extension? Are you using the Actinic menu within Dreamweaver?

      Have you read the Dreamweaver section of the Getting Started Guide?
      lol i'm not quite that bad but yeah its all installed and the linking works fine cuz like i said i can do the import perfectly with the example files from the training...

      i think it must me just the way i've written it or something

      EDIT: by the way thanks for the mightily quick reply

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        #4
        OK, if you have got the extension installed - then you need to use the Actinic Menu in Dreamweaver to bring in the "essential" items identified in the documentation and then try to "register" your design with Actinic.
        Bill
        www.egyptianwonders.co.uk
        Text directoryWorldwide Actinic(TM) shops
        BC Ness Solutions Support services, custom software
        Registered Microsoft™ Partner (ISV)
        VoIP UK: 0131 208 0605
        Located: Alexandria, EGYPT

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          #5
          background: url(header.png) no-repeat top;
          you will need to put single quotes around the image name for it to show properly ie

          url('header.png')

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