I'm afraid you are just stuck. DMX2004 was a beginner at rendering CSS
layouts. Without learning the code, you will be flying blind.

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"Adamtosman" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I am using Dreamweaver MX 2004. I have tried to download at least 5 free
>CSS
> templates from various places. All of them have correct CSS code and they
> preview correctly in Internet Explorer, however my "Design View" is all
> messed
> up, nothing appears how it should. The alignment is all off, pieces are
> all
> over the place, nothing is as it should be. I have to modify a line or
> two,
> then preview in IE, the do it again and again after ever little change to
> make
> sure i am not screwing the whole page up. That kind of illiminates the
> whole
> purpose of Design mode. I am a visual person so staring at lines of code
> will
> not work for me, can anyone . Serious answers only please.
>
> Please do not post "Learn the code" or any variation of that, i am slowly
> learning more about the CSS code, but for now its hard for me to see how
> it is
> applying to the design when the design mode is messing up so bad.:disgust;
>