Layout help

[The_Detailer]

I have recently purchased Actinic Business V8 and am currently designing my companies website.
However the design tab does not work, all I get is a blank white screen. I have tried everything that has been mentioned in previous threads to no joy.

I am trying to lower the navigation links bar which is blocking my logo out. www.topmarquesvaleting.co.uk

Can anybody help as I am stumped

How do I go about editing my design totally in Dreamweaver and then importing it back into actinic?

One final question, I had this designed for me by a friend http://homepage.ntlworld.com/erranj but he does not know how to integrate a basket.
Is it possible to import the shopping cart from Actinic into the design keeping all buttons and images as they are?

thanks ever so much for your help and no doubt you will be seeing a bit more of me in the weeks to come

Kind regards

TD

[leehack]

Your logo problem is due to one or a mixture of this in your code:

<div class="page_header" align="center"><div class="page_header_content"> <div class="page_header_logo_container"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td height="63"

I would gamble and say it is the td height="63", if not then look in the actinic.css (stylesheet) for height attributes on the classes declared above.

As for using an external design you can create a external design in dreamweaver and then register this with actinic. The dreamweaver integration add-on lets you do this and it's a great feature. You create the design, add the actinic layouts/variables (within dreamweaver) and then send the design off to actinic to use. Probably best to have a read about this in the documentation.

PS - your mate's design is showing this "/> " /> " /> " /> "> " at the top, which is probably due to incorrect closing of tags.

[The_Detailer]

Hi Lee, thanks for the advice.

I have just viewed the homepage in DW and the logo and header link bar are fine, however in actinic and live on the net it isnt right.

So I tried editing the actinic.css file using DW and changing the value from 63 to 83 and then saving it again and closing DW.

When I open up actinic, it changes the value back to 63

I think I am editing the right actinic.css file........Its the one under 'SiteHTML' and not the 'PreviewHTML' one.

Thanks once again and I will leave my other site until I have had some more practise on actinic lol

TD

[jont]

In version 8 actinic.css is not available outside Actinic - the copy in the site folder is used to preview the page and should not be edited ... in the design tab navigate to Actinic Stylesheet in the drop down box.

[Duncan Rounding]

Make modifications to the actinic.css file from within Actinic on the design tab. If you want to make changes to css using DW then use an additional css file.

[leehack]

While you are getting used to things and how they work, make any changes within the design tab of actinic itself. Once you setup an external dreamweaver design, by all means work on the external design in dreamweaver, on everything else work within actinic. You could change it (for the rest of your life) in the areas you are currently, it will never make a scrap of difference.

[The_Detailer]

Thanks again for the replies guys.

however as per my 1st post, the design tab is not working and I have tried all of the fix's on other threads on this forum but to no joy

I will have to live with it as it is I guess and change what I can for now

Thanks again

[Duncan Rounding]

Sorry I missed the first part of your problem.

Are you running the latest version of Actinic (v850)? If not then do a full backup and then uninstall the old version and install the latest full product. This was an issue with some earlier installations as you can see by previous posts.

If you still have the issue then I would raise a support ticket with Actinic.

[Bruce]

If you are on 8.5.0, have done as Duncan suggested above and still have issues with the Design tab then please raise a support ticket here or call support on Monday if you have cover.

Kind regards,

[The_Detailer]

Cheers guys, have updated to the latest version and the design tab is working.

Take a look and let me know what you think so far www.topmarquesvaleting.co.uk

I do have another question for you.................My website looks fine in 1280 * 1024 but the title bar is not right on 800 * 600 or 1024 * 768

Is there anyway I can make it look right on all resolutions?

Thanks alot

Erran

[leehack]

Have a read through this thread, it may help you - http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=28811

[The_Detailer]

Cheers Lee, your a star

I'm just getting to grips with this web design malarky and even thou i'm no good at it, i'm having fun learning which is a rareity for me as I usually dont have the patience

Will get reading that link

Erran

[The_Detailer]

Well I have read that thread and re-read it and to be 100% honest most of it went straight over my head. I am not up on the technical terms.

I have created my site with a resolution of 1024*768 on a 17" monitor and it is almost dead centre
When I change to 1280*1024 the header moves to the left, and when i change it too 800*600 the header moves to the right

It is only the header doing this and I cannot work out what I need to put in the CSS to resolve this issue or exactly where in the CSS it needs to go.
Thats if it is even a CSS issue..........................I really should be in bed as i've got 'man flu' which isnt helping my concentration but needs must.

Cheers for any help

Erran

[leehack]

Its very hard to decipher your code as it is compressed, however i would say that it is something to do with this line:

<td height="63" valign="middle"><img src="acatalog/TMV.jpg" width="305" height="85" alt="Services Offered" class="logoimage"></td>

Your logo is far more than 305 wide for starters and you are trying to put something specified as 85 high into something specified as 63 high.

There will be a style somewhere applied the surrounding area causing the issue. You have a class defined as "logoimage", but i can't find it, have a look into that also.

Sorry can't be more specific, it is so hard to decipher compressed code.

[RuralWeb]

valign="middle"><

Try removing the "v" from valign