Dreamweaver 'Real-time Preview' and RtClck 'Open in Browser' Not Working

[pixlchik]

I have seen a couple of posts similar to this but I am unable to take any action to respond or clarify since they're closed so am opening a new question.

I've also noted that one of the responses was saying that the person did not have a site defined which was causing the problem. Why should I need to have a site defined for it to work? Much of what I use DW for is for email marketing because the service we use at work unfortunately sucks for editing within their system, so I do it in DW with the color coding, etc., making the work much easier. I've always done this over the past 2 years at this job and the Real-time Preview has always worked for this. Not sure why it's not working now, but I really need that convenience when testing the email code. Can someone address? It's not working in Mozilla FF, Chrome or Safari, it just goes to the open app but does not generate a visual of the email.

Thanks for any help.

andor

[Jon Fritz · Accepted solution]

I use DW for email marketing as well, and I've always defined sites for each client (if they didn't have one with me already). Client One's emails all reside in the same defined site's root folder, Client Two in their own and so on. As a final step before the email code gets transferred to the email service, I do a find & replace to add in absolute paths to images on a server.

I've always had problems getting DW to work correctly without a Defined Site, something always seems to go wrong somewhere unless I add that root folder to the site definition. I've been using the above workflow since CS4 when I first moved over to DW and it has always worked for me.

I never liked DW's Live Preview, it rarely ever worked for me as advertised, so I've modified DW to use the older Open in Browser on F12. If something isn't showing up when you use Open in Browser, it could be a code error the browser can't handle, like an unclosed </title> tag.

Validate your page at http://validator.w3.org and make sure there are no major structural defects in it.