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January 13, 2019
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I am an automotive technician. I have been using Dreamweaver to make websites for my shops since Dreamweaver 3. I am currently running the newest version on my pc. I created a Template which looks pretty nice. I based it off of my index page at http://gallatinautorepairs.com. The template looks good and shows no html errors in Dreamweaver. When I attempt to make a new page from the template i get an error message, "error on line 2 unbalanced instance begin tag". Several tags are missing from the end of the document (</div></div></section></main></body></html>) I have checked every tag in the template and they are all balanced. The only thing that I am doing differently in this template that I have never done before is that I am using optional editable regions. I have tried both with and without the schema declaration in the html. ( I used the schema declarations in my last template with no issues). Here is the template html:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>

<title>Welcome to Rockridge Automotive Repair</title>

</head>

</a>

</div>

<li><a href="../about-us.html">About Us</a></li>

<li><a href="../services.html">Our Services</a></li>

</ul>

</div>

</a>

</ul>

<li>

<a>Products</a>

<ul>

<li><a>Product 1</a></li>

<li><a>Product 2</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><a href="../gallery.html">Gallery</a></li>

<li><a href="../contact.html">Contact</a></li>

</ul>

</div>

</nav>

</header>

Rockbridge Automotive

</h1>

Auto Repair Facility In Gallatin TN

</h2>

<h3>Page_Description</h3>

<p class="text-white"> more text and <a class="text-primary-hover" href="../services.html"> services link</a></p>

Optional_Subject_Photo

</header>

</a>

</a>

</div>

</section>

Optional_Picture_2

</div>

<h2 class="text-l-size-40 text-size-30 text-white">We Service <b>Old Or New</b></h2>

<p class="margin-bottom">We enjoy repairing the cars and equipment from the old days like this killer Dodge Hemi engine but I love the fuel injected, supercharged monster that we get in the shop today as well. I love the shreaking sound of four cylinder motors, (especially motorcycles) but I love the deep thump of a V-twin, a V-8 or V-10 engine. I dig turbocharged and supercharged engines. I love two strokes. I guess I am just a gear-head!</p>

</div>

</section>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</section>

<h2 class="text-white text-size-50 text-m-size-40 margin-bottom-20">Quality Auto Repair </h2>

</a>

</a>

</div>

</section>

</main>

</div>

<h4 class="text-white text-strong">Our Mission</h4>

<p>

<b class="text-size-20">Reliable friendly Service!</b> We strive to give our clients the best auto repair service in Sumner County. We provide <b class="text-size-20">Christian Automotive Repairs</b>, because we have to answer to a much higher authority.

</p>

</div>

<h4 class="text-white text-strong margin-m-top-30">Useful Links</h4>

<a class="text-primary-hover" href="../contact.html">Contact Us</a><br>

</div>

<a class="text-primary-hover" href="../page.html">Terms and Conditions</a><br>

<a class="text-primary-hover" href="../page.html">Refund Policy</a><br>

<a class="text-primary-hover" href="../page.html">Disclaimer</a>

</div>

<h4 class="text-white text-strong margin-m-top-30">Contact Us</h4>

<a class="text-primary-hover" href="mailto:info@gallatinautorepairs.com"><i class="icon-sli-mouse text-primary"></i> info@gallatinautorepairs</a><br>

<i class="icon-mail text-primary"></i><span itemprop="streetAddress"> 105 Red Tuttle Road</span><br>

<i class="icon-home text-primary"></i><span itemprop="addressLocality"> Bethpage</span>,

</div>

</section>

</div>

<p class="text-size-12">I would like to thank the designers at <a class="text-primary-hover" href="https://signup.graphicszoo.com/get-started/">Graphic Zoo</a> for this website design.</p>

</div>

<a class="right text-size-12 text-primary-hover" href="http://www.myresponsee.com" title="Responsee - lightweight responsive framework">Design and coding<br> by Responsee Team</a>

</div>

</section>

</footer>

</body>

</html>

Here is what is generated when i attempt to make a new page from it:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>

<title>Welcome to Rockridge Automotive Repair</title>

</head>

</a>

</div>

<li><a href="about-us.html">About Us</a></li>

<li><a href="services.html">Our Services</a></li>

</ul>

</div>

</a>

</ul>

<li>

<a>Products</a>

<ul>

<li><a>Product 1</a></li>

<li><a>Product 2</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><a href="gallery.html">Gallery</a></li>

<li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>

</ul>

</div>

</nav>

</header>

Rockbridge Automotive

</h1>

Auto Repair Facility In Gallatin TN

</h2>

<h3>Page_Description</h3>

<p class="text-white"> more text and <a class="text-primary-hover" href="services.html"> services link</a></p>

Optional_Subject_Photo

</header>

</a>

</a>

</div>

</section>

Optional_Picture_2

</div>

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

As You can see the html is incomplete. I am clueless as to what could be wrong. Because automotive repair has many facets I have about 77 pages ready for the template. I have been stuck here for several days and i fear that moving forward with the website will have me not being able to make site-wide changes easily like i have in the past. My new shop is due to open up in less than a month and I was really hoping to get some placement in Google before the shop opens. Any help would be greatly appreciated as i have several technicians that are depending on me getting this shop off of the ground so that they can feed their families.

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Correct answer kassiegeorge

So I re-wrote the page but eliminated the editable optional regions and turned them all into just plain old editable regions. When i generated pages with the new template they came out with perfect, error free html. I can still delete the sections that I didn't want on ever page buy simply clearing the sample text or pictures from the editable region and leaving it blank. Here is a page made with the new template: Welcome to Rockridge Automotive Repair I made small changes in the template and when I saved it Dreamweaver updated the child pages for me! Yipee!! I still don't know what I was doing wrong with the optional editable regions but this workaround is working for me.

kassiegeorgeAuthorCorrect answer

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So I re-wrote the page but eliminated the editable optional regions and turned them all into just plain old editable regions. When i generated pages with the new template they came out with perfect, error free html. I can still delete the sections that I didn't want on ever page buy simply clearing the sample text or pictures from the editable region and leaving it blank. Here is a page made with the new template: Welcome to Rockridge Automotive Repair I made small changes in the template and when I saved it Dreamweaver updated the child pages for me! Yipee!! I still don't know what I was doing wrong with the optional editable regions but this workaround is working for me.

BenPleysier

Community Expert

Your page is not linked to a template. For this to happen, the child pages should contain a line similar to

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kassiegeorgeAuthor

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First off, thanks for answering. On line two the declaration of the template, (<html itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AutoRepair" lang="en">) is there. When the page generates it doesn't create the closing tags for the, "InstanceBegin, or the other missing tags. I have also deleted the schema reference from the html tag. I ghave completely re-written the code one line at a time. All of my tags are balanced in the template file but the generated files are still incomplete. It's killing me slowly.

BenPleysier

Community Expert

This is what I see

Also index.dwt cannot be found in the Templates subdirectory. Please see the link in my previous reply if you want to work with the Dreamweaver Template system.

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