Hello, I recently got the adobe suite. I have been coding my web pages by hand
for about 10 years, but have so many I'm doing now and there are so many new
cool things that you can do with them that I'm now planing on switching to
doing my pages in dreamweaver. I have a lot of pages that I did in the past,
and I'm going to be doing some redesigning. The first issue I've come up with
is my file includes. The code I use is below.

<!--#include file="name.lnk"-->

I use this code and extension name because years ago a friend of mine said,
hey look you can do this, and it worked and I just copied the code, put it in
different places with different files, footer, header, menu, etc. I was reading
several posts in this forum this morning about using file includes.

I did make sure that the box was checked in the invisible elements window to
show includes but my includes still don't show in dreamweaver. They show fine
on my web site. I'm thinking dreamweaver may not like my extension name and
maybe it should be changed anyway. So my question is what should I use as the
extension name for file includes and what are the differences?

Thanks

> So my question is what should I use as the
> extension name for file includes and what are the differences?

It doesn't matter. I frequently recommend the use of "*.monkeybutt".

Do you have Preview with Temp files enabled in your preferences?

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"gupp" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hello, I recently got the adobe suite. I have been coding my web pages by
> hand
> for about 10 years, but have so many I'm doing now and there are so many
> new
> cool things that you can do with them that I'm now planing on switching to
> doing my pages in dreamweaver. I have a lot of pages that I did in the
> past,
> and I'm going to be doing some redesigning. The first issue I've come up
> with
> is my file includes. The code I use is below.
>
> <!--#include file="name.lnk"-->
>
> I use this code and extension name because years ago a friend of mine
> said,
> hey look you can do this, and it worked and I just copied the code, put it
> in
> different places with different files, footer, header, menu, etc. I was
> reading
> several posts in this forum this morning about using file includes.
>
> I did make sure that the box was checked in the invisible elements window
> to
> show includes but my includes still don't show in dreamweaver. They show
> fine
> on my web site. I'm thinking dreamweaver may not like my extension name
> and
> maybe it should be changed anyway. So my question is what should I use as
> the
> extension name for file includes and what are the differences?
>
> Thanks
>

Thank you I figured it out I think. Since it wasn't the extension it had to be
something else. I think I had to add the site, I couldn't just open the file.
At least after doing that its showing my includes. I watched the videos that
came with the software about a week ago, and got a book, but haven't been brave
enough to actually try to start changing my pages over until now. I think I
have a plan. lol I hope its vaild.

DW is VERY site-centric. You need to define a site to do anything
meaningful....

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Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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"gupp" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:g6afbo$qlg$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Thank you I figured it out I think. Since it wasn't the extension it had
> to be
> something else. I think I had to add the site, I couldn't just open the
> file.
> At least after doing that its showing my includes. I watched the videos
> that
> came with the software about a week ago, and got a book, but haven't been
> brave
> enough to actually try to start changing my pages over until now. I think
> I
> have a plan. lol I hope its vaild.
>