issues with header.tpl

[jrnetwork]

I'm trying to edit my header.tpl file in my portal template in two ways. But I'm having issues. As soon as I make any valid changes, the template breaks. These are the two changes I'm trying to make:

I want to change the title:

<title>{$companyname} - {$pagetitle}{if $kbarticle.title} - {$kbarticle.title}{/if}</title>

to

<title>{$pagetitle}{if $kbarticle.title} - {$kbarticle.title}{/if} - {$companyname}</title>

so the page name appears before the company name. It's such a simple change, but as soon as I do this, the template breaks and it's all over the page.

The second change I'm trying to do is to put in a favicon.ico file, but inserting this line in the head of my header.tpl file:

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="templates/{$template}/favicon.ico">

and I've got the favicon.ico file uploaded into that directory. Again, if I make this simple change, the template breaks and it's all over the page. I need to re-upload my unedited version to fix it, not even undoing the changes and then uploading the file fixes it either.

Hoping someone here has a solution for this.

[sparky]

Those changes should be fine...
What editor are you using to save the file?

[jrnetwork]

Dreamweaver, and then I upload with Dreamweaver, and I've tried uploading with my WS_FTP as well, which works for any thing use, but whenever I change the tpl files I seem to have dramas.

[sparky]

Get yourself NotePad++ and FileZilla
In notepad++ set the default file encoding to utf-8 without BOM
Then you should be set

EDIT: links for you
http://filezilla-project.org/download.php
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/release/5.8.7

[jrnetwork]

I just got Notepad ++ thanks.

I've got all my sites setup in WS_FTP which I prefer as I paid for it last year, the pro version.

Should I be uploading the .tpl files in binary or ascii mode?

[sparky]

a tpl file is basically a text file just like a html file so it should be ascii mode

[jrnetwork]

By the way, using Notepad ++ as you suggested has worked perfectly. I knew there was nothing wrong with the coding change I had done.

This also explains why when I cicked undo in Dreamweaver and then uploaded, it still did not work. Obviously Dreamweaver is not good for editing .tpl files.

[sparky]

IMHO... not much good for anything at all.

Glad you got it sorted