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Originally Posted by Darlene Hill

Hi Jim,
OK then something's definitely amiss. I use GoLive everyday almost all day long and am at a loss. Here's what I see and if that's what I should see I'm still lost. http://www.nanasbaby.com/pic.png

The tpl suffix is in my File Mappings and the mime is set to text/html.

If this is correctly displaying, how do I edit the various areas of the template to look like my customer's main site? I'm trying to do a very simple edit of the header and footer. The other areas I can change via the CSS file just fine, but I want to use a header and footer I've created. You can see the temporary page at http://www.nanasbaby.com

THANKS for any help you can provide.
Darlene

Yummy tpl stuff! Yup that's what you are supposed to see. Remember, this is a TPL file and not an HTML file so you have to adjust how you work within Golive.

Listen, you are a female (I hope this is a proper assumption) which means super multi-tasker so just relax a bit and adjust to this new way of working and you will actually start to enjoy it.

OK, first off some serious surgery here...kill averything IN the top table except for {include file="head.tpl"}. OK, ok you might need everything else but let's keep this simple at the outset. Just create a new folder in your Golive site manager to store all your ORIGINAL tpl files as backups.

Yeah, yeah, I know the backups are already on the server but I like'em in GOLIVE!

Next, find and edit the "head.tpl" file. Kill everything in this file except for the top line in {}'s and slap in your header HTML gizmoid

FTP that tpl-adjusted puppies onto the server (yes, overwrite), reload the page in the Foxy browser and voila- Darlene Done Did It.

Same with the footer.

And remember this is the easy stuff but let me tell you once you start wrapping that noggin of yours around the process (pronounced with a UK accent for effect) it really is not to horrible of a lifestyle, editing tpl's.

OK, once you get this down then throw back in the Smarty stuff you need, if necessary.

Just break things girl! This assuming you have backups back to Jersey of course, because breaking and tweaking and comparing is a great education for getting started with Smarty and this XCart thingy.

Yummy design by the way on the baby page.

Also, my name is not Jim, I was quoting Jim. No problemo, I would have done the same thing myself actually.

[Darlene Hill]

Thanks for the help. I'll let you know how my female head wraps around it. LOL... and thanks on the design.

Darlene