Greg K — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 20:20:51 +0000

Here is something I have been doing for a while on a large site I maintain, it allows me to use "/img/{whatever}" when viewing on my computer. It created a virual drive in windows (just about any version I think).

From the desktop, right click in an empty area, and choose NEW -> SHORTCUT

Then for the "location of item", enter the following:
subst.exe s: d:\websites\summitcollege
Replace S: with whichever unused drive letter you want to use.
Replace d:\websites\summitcollege with the full path to use as the root of your new "drive".

Now on you system, you can either click on the shortcut before editing the site, or if you use it almost daily like me, drag the shortcut into STARTUP in your START -> PROGRAMS menu and it will run when you boot up.

For the college site I maintain, all HREF's and SRC's are based off of the root of the server, and now with the local files, they are in the root of Drive S:, so they link properly.

-Greg

KarenArt — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:58:08 +0000

Glad to hear it's working for you!
Everytime I'm trying to learn something new I have to rely on the kindness of others to help talk me through it.

bamaboy7 — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 08:21:01 +0000

Thanks for your help. After reading your advice, I was able to find what I was doing wrong, and now have my images. Thank you very much!

KarenArt — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:08:22 +0000

Hmmm.... I don't know Web page Maker software. I am going to assume it's something you have and not something your website server is providing...?
If it's one of your programs then the solution might be a lot simpler than something that might be happening if it's an interface on the server.

Here's my question...
When you upload your page to the server, are you uploading both the html file and the folder of images?
The background color isn't showing up because it's an image too.

bamaboy7 — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:41:42 +0000

First let me thank you for your speedy reply. The page was made using Web page Maker software. Every thing entered except for the text came from thier templates. Even the background color isnt there. Maybe yall can help me see whats missing in this picture. (pun intended)

Roo — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:10:00 +0000

Also on resize banner.JPG......you can't have a space, you need to rename that to resizebanner.JPG or resize_banner.JPG.

KarenArt — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:37:44 +0000

Are you sure you uploaded your images to the server?
The only image in the "images" folder is resize banner.JPG.

Double check to make sure you're images are uploading.

Same problem

bamaboy7 — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:33:36 +0000

ive got the same problem. will your answers work for me? all my text is there, but no images or buttons for links. my page is charlescjones.com

KarenArt — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:22:41 +0000

This is what I can tell about your file structure...
Your css is at http://www.angeltowns2.com/members/bassdesigns/css/
Your images are at http://www.angeltowns2.com/members/bassdesigns/images/
and your page is at http://www.angeltowns2.com/members/bassdesigns/

If you simply put /images/home_on.png in your css or html, it will go to the top level folder (which would be http://www.angeltowns2.com/) to find the folder "images". What you want to do is point toward the place where your images folder is at.
You can either put
/members/bassdesigns/images/IMAGE.png'
or in your css file...
../images/IMAGE.png'
and in your html page
images/IMAGE.png'
It's just a matter of pointing to the right place to find your files.

Suzanne — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:21:02 +0000

You don't have the same set up on your desktop as on the web. Either work live or make the change via a search and replace afterwards.

"/images" won't work on your desktop unless you're running a virtual server.