Why Does My Site Show "index Of /" ?

[ropie]

When I go to my site, richardopie.com, all I get is the "Index of /" page and the folders. I cannot get into the folders, even with my password. I am using frontpage to publish, and I published to my ftp site ok (

I think). When I try to publish (using frontpage) I get the password popup and the user name and password that I used to publish to the ftp doesn't work?? Any suggestions??

[stevevan]

What directory did you "publish" your files in? They need to be in the /public_html directory and you need to have an index file.

[ropie]

What directory did you "publish" your files in? They need to be in the /public_html directory and you need to have an index file.

 

 

Very cool. Thank you Steve!

[TCH-Bruce]

I see you have it sorted out

 

You are missing an image or the reference to the image is incorrect on you page though. Might want to take a look at that. Your image links on some of the other pages are not displaying either. Remember you are running on a *nix system and case (filenames upper/lower) does matter.

[nortk]

Sorry to stray from your question a bit.

 

It seems you got it sorted out...the site shows up, along with the pictures. However, each picture is about 1.25MB, meaning that anyone viewing your site over dialup may have to wait a couple minutes for the pictures to load. Consider putting scaled down images on the main page, and then linking them to the full-size pictures. Your page will load MUCH faster. Putting height and width attributes in your HTML won't make the files smaller. You need some image editing program to save smaller versions.

 

Nice looking bungalow by the way!

[ropie]

Thanks Steve - I did figure out the upper/lower case problem, and then I just logged in to ask another question that you anticipated! - how to get photos to load faster. When you say "scaled down" I'm not following you - does that mean a different format (.gif?), or is there a way I can reduce the resolution of the images for the index page and maybe for photos on a dedicated thumbnail page and then link to full resolution. I do have image editing software. Thanks for your help!

[TCH-Bruce]

Many programs will allow you to reduce the size of an image by reducing the quality slightly.

 

Programs like Paint Shop Pro have an export option for the web which will shrink the image size considerably while leaving the photo relatively the same.

[stevevan]

Try Bruce's suggestion first and see if that helps.

[nortk]

If you have Paint Shop Pro, it will do the job...but it's a pretty big install if all you want is to resize images. There are lots of free little programs that will allow you to do it...irfanView is decent. Also, if you go to microsoft's website and look up xp powertoys, you will find an image resizer that is really quite nice.

 

You would NOT want to change to a .gif...keep it as a .jpg file. By the way, I just tried resizing one of your images, the dining room, to 320 by 240 pixels. It went from 1.25 megabytes down to 17 kilobytes, and the quality is still plenty good for the place where you have it on your main page.

 

After you resize it, give it a new name, like smalldiningroom.jpg, and upload it to your directory. Then, replace the html in your main page to use the small jpg file instead of the big one.

[TCH-Don]

irfanview is an excellent free program to help reduce the dimensions to a smaller image

like going from 1024x768 down to 400x300

 

You are just displaying a large dimension image as a smaller image,

it is still a large image and takes up a lot of space and takes longer to load.

 

If you reduce the dimensions to say 400x300 and re-save at 50% compression

the images will take less space and display much faster.

[TCH-Bruce]

I wasn't suggesting resizing the image. For that I would have recommended IrfanView.

[nortk]

Oops! Sorry, misread!

[Deverill]

A tool I use from time to time is at netmechanic.com. You can let them check out your pages for html errors, spelling errors and other things. One feature they have allows you to see the load times at different speeds, from dialup to T1, and then when you click an image they show you side-by-side versions of it compressed at different percentages. Just go down the line and pick the smallest one that still looks good. No guessing!

 

Go to netmechanic.com, on the top-left under Fix HTML Code Errors click "Try It". Enter your page's address and wait a minute. It will come back with a report. Where it says "Load Time" the end of the line says "Detailed Report" Click that. Then it lists the sizes of each of your graphics. Scroll until you get one that looks as good as you need it to and click it. You can then click and save the compressed (smaller) version to your drive to upload in place of the big one that's there.

 

Of course, nearly any graphics program can do this but it usually requires you to enter some seemingly arbitrary numbers and using trial-and-error to get it right. I use netmechanic when I'm lazy. Hope it helps.

[ropie]

Thanks for all your great advice. this is one of the fastest, friendliest, and most helpful forums I've ever been to. I've got MS Photodraw, that will probably do the trick.

[ropie]

I do have another question, but I'm going to post it under a new topic, so that others with a similar question will have easier access to your wisdom!

[stevevan]

Glad you find the forums helpful! Remember...the only dumb question is the one not asked!