I bought coffeecup primarily because I thought the visual editor could speed up some design work.

But without accessing my css file, the visual editor isn't very, well, visual. How can I get the visual editor to access the styles?

The situation could be complicated by: I have an include file for my site header <?php include("lp_header.html"); ?> This code has the link to the stylesheet. It seems that this include file is ignored by the visual editor. Is this true?

Thanks

You may want to click on profile and change your forum name to something other than your email address.

Are you referring to the Visual Site Designer, or the visual tab in the HTML editor?

Have you uploaded the file to see how it behaves on the internet? If so, a link would allow someone to check and see what is actually happening.

If you are referring to viewing the page on your computer, do you have PHP installed on your computer? The PHP code you are using requires that it be used in an environment with PHP installed such as your hosting service.

I may be wrong, but I believe that you need to change the name of your header file to lp_header.php and your web page must be named as a php file.

Hope some of this rambling helps.

Bill's right. Unless you have PHP installed on your local computer, you cannot view any PHP while working locally...

And if installed, you must develop within the folder specified in set up or you will not see the changes. Not hard to set it up...there are several online step-by-steps.

I bought the HTML Editor 2008 also because it included a Visual designer, as I am a beginner, but how found that it isnt friendly with your own CSS. So, I ditched the Visual part of it and have the editor to be much better with external css and everything is going pretty smooth now.

Thanks for the replies. I do have php installed, etc. Everything works fine on my local machine and on-line. The Visual Editor tab on the HTML software (sorry if that wasn't clear I tried to include that in my subject line) is my specific question.

I have tried including both html and php files and it doesn't appear to work. Rather than include the header file I added one line linking in the stylesheet and that did improve matters somewhat.

But I am rather disappointed that the visual editor tab doesn't appear to work with my css file very well. I already had a free editor that worked great. I was hoping for a speedier design solution.

I created a page from scratch and noted that coffeecup created everything with inline style and perhaps I can use that to create my stylesheet.