Dreamweaver question about page upload

Question

I am really new to dreamweaver (Macromedia Dreamweaver 8) and I have walked myself through a lot of it. I have created several pages, and they all link together nicely when I load them through FTP to the website. The problem is the page loaded to the website doesn't fully look like the page I created. When I preview in the browser it looks perfect. But the uploaded page is missing blocks and squares that I had over the links, and some images.

Please -- what am I doing wrong and how do I change it so when I upload the page to the FTP and "publish it" that it will look like it does in the browser preview function.

If it matters I used a "Starter Page" for a guide to get me started. This is a website for a church group so I want it to look nice.

Answer 1

It sounds like a stylesheet is saved in the wrong place or something.  Make sure that the way your files are saved on the remote server has the exact same structure as the way they are saved on your local computer.  For instance, if your stylesheet is in a folder called "style", you want to ensure that it's in the same folder on the remote site.

If that's all good, what I would do is make sure that you have uploaded the most current files.

If that's all good, I would download firefox (if you don't already have it), and then an add-on for it called firebug (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox...  There is a button on that, inspect, which will let you select element of your page and show you the code underlying it, so you can see what's going on there.

I would also view the source of the remote page, and make sure that the code is the same as the code that you have saved locally on your computer.  If all that is the same, it SHOULD render correctly in your browser.

One last thing to check – make sure you are viewing the most recent copy of the page, as browsers cache content.  Hit CTRL-F5 to do a cache-clear refresh on your browser.

Good luck!