JohnBoy — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 20:59:53 +0000

a word to the wise for anybody reading this... make your images the size you need in 72 dpi them and then insert them. Never (I repeat NEVER) resize them in HTML. It will look like garbage, not to mention, it will also slow your site down.

Also, if you're still having problems, it may be the image itself. Make sure it's in RGB (24-bit) color before you insert it. That can be a problem too when trying to display it.

detox — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 01:08:53 +0000

HTML is very quick and easy to learn, the most inmportant thing with all things I suppose is to have the basics down pat. Once you are versed in the basics then you are off.

When I first started out with HTML I was put off by tables, you just have to get in there and try it out!

sonesta — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:37:53 +0000

Thanks for the help, folks! I'm busy writing code now. I know the basic stuff pretty well, I just got lazy. I had the .jpg files down to less than 50 kb for most of them and thought that was enough. I will resize them all to make sure that's not the problem and will reload them to the site and see what happens with the word html files. But I'm STILL going redo all the pages with plain code!!!

By the way, I found that Lissexplains.com site that some of you had talked about and found it delightful as a simple explanation of tables (I think I got scared of them and that's why I copped out and went to word's editor). Now they seem simple!

detox — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:25:19 +0000

OUCH!

Quote: you see that the actual image is probably about 1200+ pixels wide and about that much in height.

That is the problem right there. Best thing is to never resize image on the fly in simple HTML, if you have a graphics program simply resize it to the proportions you want. If you dont you can download trial versions of Photoshop and Jasc PaintShop Pro. If all else fails, simply ask someone here to resize them for you....

Suzanne — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:24:09 +0000

Quote: you see that the actual image is probably about 1200+ pixels wide and about that much in height.

Bing!! That's it -- the browsers probably time out while trying to load the monster files.

Suzanne

disaster-master — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 19:38:23 +0000

You definaltly need to use something besides word.

I went to one of your pages, http://www.nol.net/~sonesta/breeding.htm to peek at your images and code. One thing that I noticed is when you follow the file path to this image; http://www.nol.net/~sonesta/WinterEclipse.JPG) you see that the actual image is probably about 1200+ pixels wide and about that much in height. And on the web page you have it resized by using your code to this;

<img width=199 height=152
src=WinterEclipse.JPG align=left hspace=12 v:shapes="_x0000_s1028">

You should resize your images manually in a graphics program instead of using the html code to do this. This will sometimes make only half the image show up or not show up at all. I don't think that this is all of your problem but it could be contributing.

Try this. Right click the image below and save to your hard drive (using the same name that I have called it) Then replace the code on the page that has Winter Eclipse on it (same code listed above) with what I have below the pic and see if that helps.

<img src="WinterEclipse_small.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="150">'

krash_io — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 18:53:27 +0000

All I have to say is HTML is very very easy. Don't make it seem more complicated than it is. All HTML basically does is formatting. When you get into server or client side is where it gets a little different.

Just know how to write a tag, and how to specify attributes and values and you can reffer to a reference guide for the specifics of each tag.

Krash_io

sonesta — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 18:42:53 +0000

Well, I started trying to clean up the code and go SO DEPRESSED! I'm throwing it out and starting over just writing the code. Here I was, thinking I'd found a good shortcut and now I'm going to have to redo the site! Yuck! And I'm not an html PRO, just know the basic stuff, so it's going to be a good learning experience, too! Thanks for all the input.

detox — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:20:33 +0000

I had to re-engineer a corporate Intranet simply because the coding had been completed with Word and converted. So much Headache. So. The danger with using anything but a dedicated (Homesite or Dreamweaver) editor or something like notepad is it beefs up your code and places everything BUT what you want it to on a page. Now my rant on WORD is over! I can go on to the rest of the reply!

This isn't a cop out but In order to help you really should clean your code up. If this was a car and you took it to a mechanic he would have told you it was a write off. My response to this is to use the link Suzanne gave you and clean the code up. The re-post it so we can help....

Re: Help! Graphics appear on some computers but not others

taff — Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:56:20 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by sonesta
Although I can use html pretty well, I have gotten lazy and have been using Microsoft Word's html creator lately.

Have you looked at your own code? Office-generated HTML has got to be the worst thing around. I can't sift through it all to see if a) there are specific image-related coding errors or b) it is the cumulatice effect of a million other errors, as Suzanne suggests.

If you must use Word to create any content, go get the Microsoft Office HTML Filter. At the very least, it will strip off all that office-specific crap. You can even strip it down to the barest of HTML tags.

I've done this on occasion for large sections of content supplied by clients in Word, but never use it for layout!