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Right i have started building a new website as i think my last one was utter PANTS asit was my first attempt and used freeserve template.
I have only done a couple of pages so far,thats taken me ages and im still not 100% happy.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Hope its ok to post this on here TED.
Off to get some links to PH now.
http://mysite.freeserve.com/BallisticBanana
TIA
BB
I have only done a couple of pages so far,thats taken me ages and im still not 100% happy.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Hope its ok to post this on here TED.
Off to get some links to PH now.
http://mysite.freeserve.com/BallisticBanana
TIA
BB
the images seem not to work Firstly BB your pictures aren't appearing on the page, you need to change the image URL tag's currently you are linking them from your D:/ drive. You need to change this to the web address of where you have uploaded the image.
Me
www.Planet-TVR.co.uk
Me
www.Planet-TVR.co.uk
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Cheers for the info will try and sort it out
One question though how can when i go to the site i can see them,is it because ther on my drive.
Plus i didnt think i had anything on my D drive.
BB
Yep, it's something we all forget to do because it looks right on our screens but as soon as someone else tries it...... anyway go to the site, right click on one of the images then choose properties you'll will see where it is trying to find them.
look forward to seeing the pics.
to b doing this now BB
'fraid there's still a bunch of little red crosses where there should be banana logos etc - nice link to the PH wesite - so at least Ted's happy!
Have you got your images hosted somewhere like imagestation.com or fotango.com? You need to find the url of the image on the site where it's hosted and put that in your website construct.
Hope you get it to work out - website building has got to be one of the most frustrating things known to man!
Hutch
edited to add that you previously got your banana logo
image to show by using this string http://mysite.freeserve.com/BANANADOM/images/5-logo.gif?0.8178825314631263 so you need to put that url inside the quotes in the following
img src=" "
and put < and > around the whole thing
Got it? - Hope I'm helping not screwing it up even more!!!
>> Edited by Hut49 on Friday 4th October 23:03
>> Edited by Hut49 on Friday 4th October 23:05
'fraid there's still a bunch of little red crosses where there should be banana logos etc - nice link to the PH wesite - so at least Ted's happy!
Have you got your images hosted somewhere like imagestation.com or fotango.com? You need to find the url of the image on the site where it's hosted and put that in your website construct.
Hope you get it to work out - website building has got to be one of the most frustrating things known to man!
Hutch
edited to add that you previously got your banana logo
image to show by using this string http://mysite.freeserve.com/BANANADOM/images/5-logo.gif?0.8178825314631263 so you need to put that url inside the quotes in the following img src=" "
and put < and > around the whole thing
Got it? - Hope I'm helping not screwing it up even more!!!
>> Edited by Hut49 on Friday 4th October 23:03
>> Edited by Hut49 on Friday 4th October 23:05
BB - do you want a copy of Macromedia Dreamweaver Ultradev? I have a copy I have "finished using"...
It is regarded as one of the better web site building packages - and I built my site with it, see www.minispecial.com
Let me know if you want it and I will make an "emergency backup" of the CD...
It is regarded as one of the better web site building packages - and I built my site with it, see www.minispecial.com
Let me know if you want it and I will make an "emergency backup" of the CD...
The problem you have with the images is this: your image tags are like this:
This makes the browser look to the D: drive for the images. Except, once you have uploaded the file to the server it is not D anymore, it is something like c:inetpubuserssimonsiteimghome.gif depending on the ISP etc.
You need to use "relative" file paths instead of "absolute" - absolute points to a specific drive, whereas relative uses the parent folder system (e.g. ..img would be a folder called img one folder above the current folder).
Bottom line is: if in the above example your file HOME.GIF is in the same folder as the HTML page that you are using it on, the HTML should read:
img src="home.gif" alt="home" width="91" height="21"
Send me any code you want me to look over!
quote:
img src="file:///D:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Simon/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/Website/HOME.gif" alt="home" width="91" height="21"
This makes the browser look to the D: drive for the images. Except, once you have uploaded the file to the server it is not D anymore, it is something like c:inetpubuserssimonsiteimghome.gif depending on the ISP etc.
You need to use "relative" file paths instead of "absolute" - absolute points to a specific drive, whereas relative uses the parent folder system (e.g. ..img would be a folder called img one folder above the current folder).
Bottom line is: if in the above example your file HOME.GIF is in the same folder as the HTML page that you are using it on, the HTML should read:
img src="home.gif" alt="home" width="91" height="21"
Send me any code you want me to look over!
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Cheers Hutch
No ive been uploading them In th espace i have on Freeserve to Build my site,but i reckon i'll chuck them in Fotango and host them from there.
BB
Why not create your entire website in ONE 'root'-folder on your hard drive, and link the image's adresses relative?
You can upload the entire folder without caring for absolute addresses.
e.g.
Your absolute path on your computer is
file:///D:/Documents and Settings/Simon/My Documents/website/images/links.gif
BUT you're only giving the relative address (relative to the html-document's folder) to your html-editor:
../images/links.gif
whereas the html-document is ie.
file:///D:/Documents and Settings/Simon/My Documents/website/tvr/contents.htm
the path
*/website/
indicates your shortest homepage address.
I hope, I didn't confuse something here - anybody, please correct me, if I'm talking b
xCheers all,might take u up on that miniman,
Another question is though why do i need a host for my pictures surely if i upload them to my site i am hosting them,if not could i use my other site to host them for me.
http://mysite.freeserve.com/BANANADOM
Please dont laugh at this one, no go on i dont mind.
edited as forgot the:
I am using Netscape composer to do my pages then uploading them to freeserve webspace.
BB
BB
>> Edited by Ballistic Banana on Friday 4th October 23:31
Another question is though why do i need a host for my pictures surely if i upload them to my site i am hosting them,if not could i use my other site to host them for me.
http://mysite.freeserve.com/BANANADOM
Please dont laugh at this one, no go on i dont mind.
edited as forgot the:
I am using Netscape composer to do my pages then uploading them to freeserve webspace.
BB
BB
>> Edited by Ballistic Banana on Friday 4th October 23:31
You don't need a host for your pics. You should get a certain amount of free web space with Freeserve - e.g. 20Mb? - within this you can store all the HTML pages, images etc.
By keeping all the images in the same folder structure as the HTML pages (as Bodo says) you make it much simpler to manage.
Of course, if you use Dreamweaver, it figures all that stuff out for you. I'll get that CD on the burner, shall I???
By keeping all the images in the same folder structure as the HTML pages (as Bodo says) you make it much simpler to manage.
Of course, if you use Dreamweaver, it figures all that stuff out for you. I'll get that CD on the burner, shall I???
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Cheers all,might take u up on that miniman,
Another question is though why do i need a host for my pictures surely if i upload them to my site i am hosting them,if not could i use my other site to host them for me.
http://mysite.freeserve.com/BANANADOM
Please dont laugh at this one, no go on i dont mind.
edited as forgot the:
I am using Netscape composer to do my pages then uploading them to freeserve webspace.
BB
BB
>> Edited by Ballistic Banana on Friday 4th October 23:31
sure! just copy the image's addresses from your existing site, and paste them into the Image Properties window. Do not choose URL is relative to page location then
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Nice site Miniman - looks like Dreamweaver does what it says on the packet!
Hutch
Cheers! I actually wrote a lot of the "clever stuff" (e.g. link tracking, My Mini, Learn the Hard Way etc) from scratch with Notepad. But Dreamweaver makes it a LOT easier to manage as it uses templates and if I want to add, for example, one link to the whole site I only have to do it once and all the pages are updated for me. Cool! Must remember to take the CD back to work...
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