JokaDesign

Thanks Pat. This is really helpful with the menu issue. I had no idea that templates don't always re-impose code on all dependent pages. I will check and report back. Thanks again.

Hi Hubby here. First, Thank you for all the responses to my wife's plea for help. I thought I should clarify my problem as there are so many bits of advice coming back and a number of different levels. Secondly: I am a Mac person - I'm not that familiar with PCs - I am a designer, not a coder - I rely heavily on wysiwyg and previews to know whether code changes are working. I have created templated files in DW using a css layout based on a DW starter layout (not a DW html starter page). This is the first time I have used a css layout based on divs rather than html tables. My coder is a php person whom has kindly set up a simple database driven cms which we have seen working fine on the server. I.E. you can access the various pages through the cms and upload changes. So we got that far! The problems started to occur when I looked at the pages online for the first time and noticed a number of what I would describe as design positioning errors on all the pages, suggesting that the template needed to be tweaked. Given that I had had the design as I wanted it locally before uploading my files to the server, I assumed this was something he (the coder) had done. Sure enough, he confirmed that he'd set up a new 'master' css. His attitude was: well, if it's not right, then change it in the template. A bit of a pain as I thought I'd done all that! What has followed is a disastrous sequence of confused attempts on my part to 'learn' css and to try to gain the same level of control of the div system as I am used to with html tables. It seems that however good the layout looks in firefox or safari, it stinks in IE. Get it looking right in IE and the elements are all over the place in DW and it looks lousy in other browsers. The position now is that I have completely redone the template as simply and cleanly as I can, and applied it to the pages of the site. I have made sure that the php call in the code is where it should be, although it will need to be redefined for each page so that it calls the relevant content (currently a fatal error). The current major issue is that the navigation doesn't properly work in IE. I'm using a spry menu in DW with drop-down submenus which don't drop down in IE but do drop down in firefox when tested locally, and don't drop down at all when on the server. This worked when we began, but for some reason has ceased. My coder is losing patience because he's done his bit. I just need him to 'reconnect' the php database with the new files. He can't do anything without the menus working correctly. So I need urgent help with the spry menu and general advice about css positioning. Thank you all, so much, again. Here is a link to the site: http://www.1-2-3-4-5.com

Can someone please help!!!!! My husband's getting in a right state and typically... he doesn't like to ask for help! I'm NOT a web developer/designer but as I understand it, this is the problem: Background: He's creating a content managed site. Someone else has created the PHP Progamme (which he is assured is working on the server) and he's doing the design. He's created layouts using CSS (SPRI menus - which he's new to) and they look good and work well when he previews them in the brower. However, when he uploads the site to the server it doesn't work! He thinks it's something to do with uploading them with PHP (which he hasn't done before). Can anyone possibly help with any advice in anyway before he has a breakdown!!! (from his loving, neurotic wife