Coding error

[Mandy]

http://www.mirroredimages.co.uk is the url of the site I am trying to build. I have chosen the "Clean Layout 1" theme and picked the buttons I want but SOMEHOW, somewhere, at some time I have managed to mess things up. When you look at the homepage the links in the header area are all wrong; if you click on coffee or tea, it appears as I want it to, but then when you navigate back to the homepage the header area is all wrong again. When I preview the store I get an error message that says "missing close tag of 'Block' markup". If I dig deeper it opens a window that says "Layout Code - Brochure Nav Bar Image And Text Link List" (and I think this is where I have messed it up!). It looks as though there is something missing that should appear in red type, between angle brackets, but I'm beggered if I can work out any more than that!

Also, I would like to be able to see a link in the left navigation area called Products, which effectively takes visitors to the Store Top page but can't work out how to do that either. It's exhausting all this.... Thanks for any help offered.

[Rich Brady]

If you post the offending code, other users will be able to spot the problem for you. Just copy the code straight out of Actinic and paste it into your next post.

Cheers,

Rich

[leehack]

Any snapshots taken along the way?

[Mandy]

Coding error

I take snapshots regularly, but I do think it could have been quite some time ago that I did whatever I did to mess it all up. Since then I have added quite a lot of content and made several changes. I "think" I may have deleted (or overwritten) a button file; sometimes when I expreiment by applying different themes, wierd things happen in the header area with buttons.... I'm VERY green in this area, to the extent that when somebody tells me to "post the code" I need to know whether you want to see the entire stylesheet, or just something less.... sorry. Treat me like an idiot. I have previously worked with css and html code and text editors, but this software is just so alien to me.

[Rich Brady]

Morning Mandy,

If you look at you site in Design View and Double Click on the Coding Error Message you will be taken to exactly where your problem lies, usually highlighting it in Grey.

The message your receiving:

"missing close tag of 'Block' markup"

In my experience means you are missing the closing

/block

if you copy the section of code that is now visible, we'll be able to , hopefully, guide you in the right direction.

Rich

[Mandy]

I'm at work at the moment and the site is saved on my laptop at home, I won't be able to post until this evening, but I will be burning the midnight oil yet again tonight so will post then. I'm sure there is a /block close tag there, that would have been the first thing I looked for... but it does seem that there's something that would normally appear in red type, between angle brackets, that's missing... Later... Many thanks Rich.

[pinbrook]

i can see /block> > right at the top of mirroredimages.co.uk/acatalog/info.htm

so its looks like a block of commented text not properly started or finished.

can you paste the layout of the info page (use the CODE icon above to put it in a nice neat box for us) layout not generated code

[Mandy]

Jo

I can't see the "code icon above" that you refer to and have no idea what you mean by "layout not generated code" so am guessing at what I I about to paste here.... I went into design view, on the info.html page and viewed the layout code for the header area.... I paste it here but it doesn't present here how it does in Actinic. I'm seriously regretting being flattered into thinking I can do this..... !!!!

<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="background-image:url('theme_topbar_background.gif');">
<tr>
<td>
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22Brochure%22"><actinic:variable name="CompanyLogoImage" /></actinic:block>
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22Brochure%22"><actinic:variable name="BrochureLogoImage" /></actinic:block>
</td>
<td align="right">
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22Brochure%22">
<actinic:variable name="BrochureNavBar" />
</actinic:block>
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22Brochure%22">
<actinic:variable name="NavigationBar" />
</actinic:block>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Mandy

[pinbrook]

Ok, you did good.... you acheived what i asked for, but sadly it was no help

Could you repeat the exercise with the Overall Layout.

The code button i am talking about is just above this box when you are in reply mode - can you see where it says Fonts, sizes A etc, on the row below, starting from the right PHP, <>, #

the # icon is the code box, click it and see <CODE> </CODE> (with square brackets) paste the layout in the middle so it looks like this

blah blah

[Mandy]

Jo

Hope this is what you mean...... Mandy

<actinic:block if="%28%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%27PSP%20Bounce%20Page%27%29%20AND%20%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsPSPTestMode%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29%29%20OR%0d%28%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%27SSL%20Bounce%20Page%27%29%20AND%20%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsSharedSSLForTestOnly%22%20%2f%3e%20%20%3d%3d%20false%29%29" >onLoad();</actinic:block>PreloadImages('<actinic:variable name="BackIconImageHighlight" />','<actinic:variable name="CheckoutIconImageHighlight" />','<actinic:variable name="ContactUsIconImageHighlight" />','<actinic:variable name="EnterShopIconImageHighlight" />','<actinic:variable name="HomeIconImageHighlight" />','<actinic:variable name="LoginIconImageHighlight" />','<actinic:variable name="SearchIconImageHighlight" />','<actinic:variable name="SiteMapIconImageHighlight" />','<actinic:variable name="StoreTopIconImageHighlight" />','<actinic:variable name="TermsIconImageHighlight" />','<actinic:variable name="UpALevelIconImageHighlight" />','<actinic:variable name="ViewCartIconImageHighlight" />');