Thanks Bill I appreciate your reply.
I did what you suggested. I took the code from the template file, created a new html file in dreamweaver (deleted all the standard code (<html><body>...etc.), and pasted the code from the .tpl file. If i go to design view this is what I get.
http://nativesoul.org/images/screenshot.jpg
Is this how it is suppose to look. What am I missing. You can see that I have the Smarty plugin installed.
Thanks for your help.
Stephan