Hi Emily,

Firstly the problem you describe might be your browser. I'm using
Safari on a Mac and the desired effect appears to occur, whether I use
the back button or click Home again. So this might be the reason your
not getting the expected effect.

Secondly, the standards group I would imagine are collectively having
kittens seeing all that table based layout rendered by Dreamweaver.
Whilst there is often some debate, on the whole most people employ a
list for navigation rather than a table, however I'm assuming the
whole page is a table layout and thus whilst I would encourage you to
reconsider, I'm not going to go into an entire rewrite. I would then
suggest to you it's time to learn some CSS.

Your Dreamweaver behaviours are embedded Javascript(s), added to which
all your presentation information, such as width and height are inline
to boot. What you want to strive for is plain simple HTML, with
externally linked CSS and JS files. This approach is sometimes
referred to as 'three layers'. That being Content (HTML), Presentation
(CSS) and finally Behaviours (Javascript).

Presuming this is not just a practice piece of work and the error your
getting is just within your browser, I don't think there is a simple
bit of 'code' that will fix this. Moving forward I can only suggest
you change your methods in line with the sentiments of the standards
group.

Personally if your starting out I can't recommend Ian Lloyd's 'Build
your website the right way, using HTML and CSS' from Sitepoint, and
'HTML Dog, The best-practice guide to XHTML & CSS' by Patrick
Griffiths enough.

All the best,
John Unsworth


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