Layouts not opening properly in Dreamweaver...

[Charlesn]

Hello All,

I'm in the process of redesigning a site for a new customer who currently uses Actinic for their site. Its the first site I've produced in 8 (plenty of experience in 6/7) and I'm having some problems...

I installed and upgraded the snapshot of the existing site without any real problems. But when I try and change Act_Primary, if you click on the 'Edit Layout in Dreamweaver' button, it opens ~acttmp_layout.html from the DesignPreviewHTML folder. If I make changes to this then nothing happens, likewise if I manually navigate to Act_Primary and edit it this way. I'm guessing this isn't quite right?!

As always, any help is much appreciated!

Cheers
Charlie

[Bruce]

Charlie,

The template structure was done away with in v8, Actinic now uses layouts. The layout you are trying to edit would be called Act_Primary upgraded or something to that effect. If you are having issues with editing this layout in DW then you can go to 'Design | Library | Layouts' scroll down to the bottom and you should see 'Web Page Outer Layout', you can expand this group and then double click on your layout and edit it here.

Would be best to use a default v8 layout for the site as you should then have no issues with editing it in DW.

Kind regards,