I have MS FrontPage 2002 and it seems to kick out code that doesn’t look so great in the Firefox browser sometimes (tables get pushed up against each other, image borders get messed up, etc). Does Dreamweaver tend to do this too or does the code come out cleaner? I’m thinking about switching over. Thanks for any insights.

FP and DW are known to put lots of unwanted tags into the html if you're not careful, and in WYSIWYG mode it is easy to create non valid code which will mess up your pages.

The best way to solve these problems is to learn how html works, the use these "tools" to build your pages. Also use the html validator at http://validator.w3.org/ which will give you some clues as to what is going wrong.

I have MS FrontPage 2002 and it seems to kick out code that doesn’t look so great in the Firefox browser sometimes

That's because FP spits out garbage MS proprietary code, why WOULD it look good in FF or anything but IE ??

Does Dreamweaver tend to do this too or does the code come out cleaner?

No, because it is not using MS proprietary crap. Using DW in WYSIWYG mode only will get you some messy code, it won't be proprietary stuff. The best way to use DW is to keep your view in split mode, so you can always see what code is behind that WYSIWYG window.
I use DW, but I never just let it do it's own thing.. but then I learned to code HTML by hand almost 10 years ago - with notepad !

I know a little HTML, but I’m no coder by any means. I just can’t seem to figure out what is causing the problem (there is mainly just one). As you can see in the following page, the center table is pushed up against the toolbar (it takes away the white space that should be in between the two sections).

Any ideas what code I need to fix that is causing this error in Firefox? Know of any place I can go to get help with this one issue? Here’s the link to ht page

http://www.lifeleap.org/index.html

Thanks for any help.

have you fixed this? - it looks fine in FF

No - I didn't fix it. Just to clarify, I’m talking about the white space between the tool bar and the center table. If you view it in IE you should be able to see what I’m referring to. It does seem to be intermittent. I can see the error when I refresh the screen in FF.

I understand htlm tags to some degree, but because of the complexity of the table on this page, I've got no clue what is causing it.

You have lots of <O:P> tags - try removing them

I checked those tags and I see them in the source code of the live site, but not the site on my harddrive. I tried repubishing and this is still what happens. Any ideas?

I looked at your site with tables outlined in BOTH browsers. There is no extra space that I can see. The ONLY space between the top blue bar and the center tables that space taken up by the second graphic forming the blue bar.

It still seems to be showing up in my copy or Firefox. I just downlading the latest updates too. When I compare these two pages, I can really tell the difference (again, mainly with the center table that has all of the copy in it).

http://www.lifeleap.org/SERVICES/COP/cop1.htm

http://www.lifeleap.org/index.html

On the second page (index.html), the center table is suppose to be at 80% and center justified (as on cop.htm). It just seems to be at 100% and I think that's why it expands out and is almost up against the toolbar (unlike cop1.htm). This might have to do with having tables inside of tables? I can't figure it out - if anyone can, I'd love to hear it from you.

The only thing I see on the index page, above the 'Do you want....' text is that you have a big, empty table cell above it. That big empty cell is not there on the cop1.htm page.

I seem to be having the same sort of problem as mentioned above by: dalesellers

I designed my page using Dreamweaver MX 6 and when I preview it in Firefox it looks fine. But when I view it using WAMP5 and Firefox, various parts of the site are displayed wrong and some of the images have gone altogether. Here is a quick image of what happens. (My site is not available on the net just yet)
Eg:
This happens when viewed as a website through WAMP5:


And this is what it looks like when I preview during design (Dreamweaver 6):


Note: Both of the screenshots have been taken from the same site using the same browser: Firefox.

The image on the bottom shows what it's supposed to look like properly!

Ok. first I had to find out what WAMP5 is.. lol.
It appears that WAMP5 is not using your stylesheets. Not knowing anything about that particular server, my first guess would be a MIME type issue on the css file type.
My second guess, w/o seeing the actual code, would be a pathing issue perhaps.

Can you post the HTML ?