Ok I've given up for now trying to get my local server to show the includes files. Very frustrating but they just will not show. I also downloaded the newest WAMP to see if that was the problem. No luck... (sigh) Anyway I put my templates into a test site on rootsweb. I'm having trouble getting the includes to pick up the css. This is how the sidebar links should look. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kmills/test/Test2/ And no I don't have dreamweaver :) a friend made the template for me when I thought my program might have been causing the includes errors. Anyway once I move the menu to an includes the formatting looks like this: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kmills/test/index.html All I had done was copy the same menu links in the index.html file and put them into a txt file for the includes. The code in the index to call the menu is <div class="sidebar1"> <!--#include virtual="includes/leftmenu.txt" --> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> and the code in the includes is: <div id="sidebar1">Site Navigation</div> <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link two</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link three</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link four</a></li> </ul> I must be over looking something simple. I need them to pick up the styling like they did before moving the code to the includes. So then I can finish editing the css to get the colors/look I want. Any help is much appreciated! Kim ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3441 - Release Date: 02/13/11

Kim, What file extensions did you configure the server on your local machine to check for includes directives? .html? .shtml? .htm? or possibly all files? Lorrie On 02/13/11 13:06, Kim Mills wrote: > Ok I've given up for now trying to get my local server to show the includes files. Very frustrating but they just will not show. I also downloaded the newest WAMP to see if that was the problem. No luck... (sigh) > > Anyway I put my templates into a test site on rootsweb. I'm having trouble getting the includes to pick up the css. > > This is how the sidebar links should look. > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kmills/test/Test2/ > > And no I don't have dreamweaver :) a friend made the template for me when I thought my program might have been causing the includes errors. > Anyway once I move the menu to an includes the formatting looks like this: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kmills/test/index.html > > All I had done was copy the same menu links in the index.html file and put them into a txt file for the includes. > The code in the index to call the menu is > <div class="sidebar1"> > <!--#include virtual="includes/leftmenu.txt" --> > <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> > > and the code in the includes is: > <div id="sidebar1">Site Navigation</div> > <ul id="nav"> > <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li> > <li><a href="#">Link two</a></li> > <li><a href="#">Link three</a></li> > <li><a href="#">Link four</a></li> > </ul> > > I must be over looking something simple. I need them to pick up the styling like they did before moving the code to the includes. So then I can finish editing the css to get the colors/look I want. > > Any help is much appreciated! > > Kim > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3441 - Release Date: 02/13/11 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >