template is all messed up and won't change.

[hauntsearch]

I've been working with coppermine for a couple of years now and this is the first time I've ever encountered this problem. When I upload the template.html file, it won't change. I started on it last night and it was updating fine for a while. Then this started happening.

Here's what I do when I make a template:

1. take everything I need from the original classic template between the < body > tags and place it inside my own HTML page where I want it to go.

2. Change the css to reflect colors that better match the site I'm working on.

3. Since I use the classic template, I always upload the template.html and style.css files to the "/(coppermine name)/themes/classic" folder and upload all images to the root images folder. This design is a tad bit different in that it uses a javascript menu that I created using a different program than photoshop (which is what I usually use for the mouseover menus)

I uploaded all the images and javascript files for the menu into coppermine's root directory. That, however, is not the problem. The images are showing up, but it's the fact that I can't get any updates or css changes to show.

I have searched this board and found another person who had a seemingly similar problem and the answer given to them was to remove the template.html file from the root directory. I figured it was worth a shot and sure enough, I found the file in my root directory and deleted it. I checked my gallery afterwards and now it's even more messed up than before. The white backgrounds behind the config options menu is gone, all of the tables that contain the albums, last uploaded and random files are now missing (or just not showing up) and I can't get any updates to show.

The URL for my gallery is http://darkwiredesign.com/hauntsearch/gallery

Any help would be greatly appreciated! As I said before out of about 12 or so galleries, this is the first one that has given me any kind of problems. Did I put something in the wrong directory? Or screw something up? I'm at wit's end over this.

By the way, if this will help any, what I use to create my sites is:

photoshop (to design)
imageready (to export the slices into html)
coffeecup html editor (to finish the html code and get it ready for the web. it is not a wysiwyg editor.)
and to browse i use both internet explorer and firefox

-Thanks!

[Nibbler]

3. Since I use the classic template, I always upload the template.html and style.css files to the "/(coppermine name)/themes/classic" folder and upload all images to the root images folder. This design is a tad bit different in that it uses a javascript menu that I created using a different program than photoshop (which is what I usually use for the mouseover menus)

Your template is pointing to a stylesheet that does not exist.

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<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />


[hauntsearch]

That was odd. Because I changed the stylesheet path last night because something wasn't making sense. If the ONLY template page I'm chaning is the classic, then the others, such as macosx and eyeball, when selected should be a full-screen template with no trace of my design, but instead, all the templates were only changing inside the black area and my design was remaining there. I actually changed the path to reflect the stylesheet in the classic folder this morning, but I guess since it's not updating, the old path was still showing.

I uploaded the style.css file to the root directory and it now looks like it should, but I still can't figure out why the template page wouldn't update.

This is becoming both puzzling and frustrating

[Nibbler]

Probably because you had a template.html in the root. That will take precedence.

[hauntsearch]

so far, everything seems to be working perfect. i'm not sure how the template file got saved into the root directory but i've been able to update it and configure it. As long as it's not broke at the moment, why mess with it?  lol

Thanks Nibbler