Janine,

I am enjoying the course very much, but being a newbie to web design, it makes my head spin a bit. In lesson 7 part 1, there is a file Leaves – paintings2. When I open it to follow along, the CSS styles are not active and the site just shows up as if in Firefox with no styles. Is there a file I can download so I have the same file you are teaching with?

Christopher S.

Hi Chris,

Thank you for watching my video tutorial on Dreamweaver. I’m sorry to learn you’re having trouble with one of the project files.

Sometimes external style sheets lose their functionality when you open pages on a different computer than the one they were created on. This shouldn’t happen, but I’ve seen it often enough to believe it’s likely the cause of your problem.

Here’s a way you may be able to fix it:

1. Open the page in Dreamweaver and make sure to note the name of the style sheet that is attached to the page — if what I suspect is happening, you’ll see the name listed in the CSS Styles panel, but you won’t be able to open it to see the styles.

2. If that is the case, click to select the name and press the Delete or Backspace key on your keyboard to delete it.

3. Click on the Attach Style Sheet button at the bottom of the CSS Styles panel.

4. Locate the style sheet in the CSS folder of the main web site folder, select the style sheet, and click OK to reattach it to the page.

That should reattach the style sheet, apply all of the styles to the page automatically, and list them in the CSS Styles panel.

I hope that solves your problem, but please feel free to email again if you continue to have any trouble with those files.

Thanks,
Janine

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