Re: Editing shtml files

 but nothing appears when I use the Design View in
> Dreamweaver. 

accurate guess: the includes are complete html docs with their own head and
body tags.

when dw "sees" two body tags in one document, design view goes blank.

fix: strip the includes down to just what html is correct/needed for where
they are inserted into the main docs.


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Alan 
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I am maintaining the following web site in Dreamweaver CS3 , www.ams-cs.com, 
which was originally created in FrontPage. Every page on the site uses the 
.shtml extension. When I download the site, I can change the code in 
Dreamweaver CS3's Code View just fine, and the files will preview in my browser

with no problem, but nothing appears when I use the Design View in Dreamweaver.

Can anyone tell me why the Design View is not working?

 David Conner

You don't have the include files in the correct place in your directory
structure on your machine.

>I am maintaining the following web site in Dreamweaver CS3 , 
>www.ams-cs.com,
> which was originally created in FrontPage. Every page on the site uses the
> .shtml extension. When I download the site, I can change the code in
> Dreamweaver CS3's Code View just fine, and the files will preview in my 
> browser
> with no problem, but nothing appears when I use the Design View in 
> Dreamweaver.
> Can anyone tell me why the Design View is not working?

The extension shtml means the pages use server side includes. You can find 
their names in code view, look out (or search) for something like 
<!--#include virtual="

You say you DOWNLOADED the site. If you download pages through a web browser 
you won't get any reference to SSIs so you need to download the files using 
FTP. If so, you should be able to locate the paths as above.