> My Thanks to All, Judy, Pat, Tina, for the great suggestions. > I will join the EB RW list as suggested. I do not care to join other > lists off of RW. > > I have fixed that page. I will upload it later tonight. Yes, EW will > write good code if I start from scratch. Sometimes when I can not figure > out what is what, I just deleted the entire page and re-create it in EW. > My problem is, I have 5,000 pages made with FP. They are loaded with > junk code, but corrections are coming along. > > Here is a nightmare that I did to myself. The new code in a cell is <tr> > and the old FP used <TR>. So, smartly me, I did a find and replace to > make all TR's into "tr". The only problem was I forgot to add the < and > > . Since my web site is mostly Hispanic-leaning, the search and > replace made zillions of names like Trujillo into trujillo or trUJILLO > along with many other Hispanic names that have a TR in them. This was > not so easy to fix. I still find tr in the wrong case as I go along. > > I'll join that list tonight. > CB First rule - backup I usually backup three times when i go to work on a site makeover one for saftey one to work on one to experiment on I also backup at points where I know there is going to be a major change (not overwriting the orginal backups) second rule - make a fully validating template that works in all browsers that has been critiqued by all and sundry and you are very happy with ... that gives you a clean baseline you can ALWAYS go back to.... third rule - ask ask ask ask ask ask.. never presume you cannot do something because you have not yet figured it out or think it cannot be done (like the html to xhtml) and know for every question you ask .. there is someone else too shy to ask just that same question so your helping others:) Tina Expression Web Xmas/NY Giveaway 23rd Dec - 15th Jan http://www.frontpage-to-expression.com/expression-web-giveaway.html