My Pictures Won't Show Up...

[BizzyLizzy]

I've tried so many times in the control panel to get my pictures to show on my site but it's not working. I can't even get the second page of my site to work (but that's a problem for another day).

 

I e-mailed tech support and they told me "You are linking to the files at "Soap Website_files/image007.jpg", whereas in reality they are in "images/image007.jpg". Okay, so I went into the control panel to see if I could link them somewhere else, but I'm lost. I only know the basics of html and all the linking throws me off.

 

If there's anyone who can help me figure out what I'm doing wrong I would really appreciate it. It's so frustrating when you can't figure something out on your own.

 

Thanks in advance!

[Wilexa]

Welcome to the family, Liz!

 

I took a quick look at the source for your home page.

 

The image files that the home page is trying to load are indeed in a "Soap Website_files" directory (which doesn't exist in your webspace).

 

An example:

>src="Soap%20Website_files/image003.gif"

 

From the looks of things, you are using MS Office to build the site.

 

Maybe some MS expert can chime in.

 

I know nothing about "Publisher" or whatever you are using, but i can say that the "images" directory that you referred to exists, but is empty in your webspace. I looked via the web: yoursite.com/images.

 

You can check it with Cpanel file manager: Look at "public_html/images".

 

If you are seeing links in an "images" directory, it must be on your local computer. You need to be able to tell your software to upload the whole site.

 

I know, not very helpful, but I wanted to welcome you and wish you good luck!

 

...dave

[TCH-Andy]

Liz,

 

I would guess that on your computer you have a directory called "Soap Website_files" in which you have the images.

 

The html that you have has a link "Soap%20Website_files/image007.jpg"

and therefore it is looking for a directory called "Soap Website_files" and then expecting to find a file called "image007.jpg" in it.

 

On the server, you have not got a directory called "Soap Website_files" and hence your image files can not be found.

 

On the server your image files are in a directory called "images".

 

You need to change one of the directory names. I would search for "Soap Website_files" in your html and replace it with "images". That will sort out most of the graphics files.

 

The other ones are where the file names do not match because they are case sensitive. ie. image007.JPG is not the same as image007.jpg.

 

I hope that helps - if there are bits you don't understand, I havn't made clear, then please ask.

 

Andy

[RJSkon]

Liz

 

I have used MS Publisher in the past a little when I first started out.

 

It looks as if you are using MS Publisher 2002 and are just starting out creating a page.

I have a suggestion, try using one of the "Web Page Templates" that Publisher has, you will have better control of the page layout page width.

 

When you are finished creating your site, use the "Save As Web Page" function in Publisher.

 

When you do that MS Publisher 2002 will create a folder which contains a file list and all the images that you placed on your pages, it will also create your index.htm page file along with all the other page files.

 

Upload the folder and files to what ever directory you want at your host, with TCH the folder will be in the public_html directory.

 

BTW, MS Publisher has a very good HELP section on publishing a site.

 

Richard

[BizzyLizzy]

Wow! Everyone is so helpful! I'm going to go try everyone's suggestions and let you know how it turns out.

 

Thanks everyone!

[BizzyLizzy]

Whew! After another hour or two of trying everyone's suggestions I finally figured things out and my pictures are showing! WooHoo!!! Rock Sign

 

Now I just have to figure out what's wrong with my link back to my home page. I'll figure that one out tomorrow. I'm tired.

 

Thanks for all your help everyone!

[RJSkon]

Liz

 

Below is what I think the problem is when you go to your second page and cannot come back to your "Home Page" by clicking on the Home Page Link.

 

Your Home Page file name is index.htm, the folder that contains all your pages and images is named, BizzyLizzySoaps_files

 

When you open your second page, the Home Page link when hovered over reads, BizzyLizzySoaps.htm it should read index.htm.

 

If you go to, http://www.bizzylizzysoaps.com/BizzyLizzyS...es/filelist.xml you will see the files that are in your MS Publisher folder that is uploaded to your site and it is referring to a fileMainFile HRef="../BizzyLizzySoaps.htm.

 

 

I also created a quickie site http://www.rjskon.com/ms_pub using MS Publisher and uploaded it, when I "Saved As Web Page" I named the file index.htm, when I did this MS Pub also named the folder that contains all the images and pages "index_files"

If you go here you can see what I mean, http://www.rjskon.com/ms_pub/index_files/filelist.xml

And you will see that the folder is referring to, MainFile HRef="../index.htm

Which is what it is supposed to do.

 

I would suggest that when you "Save As Web Page", that you rename the file to (index.htm)

You may have renamed your leading page or Home Page from "BizzyLizzySoaps.htm" to index.htm, at one time so the page would open, this is just a guess.

 

Good luck.

Richard

[TCH-JimE]

Hi,

 

I would also recommend you do a simplistic page with a simple link and a simple image on it. Then as you gain in confidence, start adding other bits and pieces to it.

 

Even now when I know so much, sometimes I just write a simple page in notepad to understand a where particular script is going wrong

 

Jim

[BizzyLizzy]

Arghhh! I'm getting so annoyed. Everytime I think I'm almost there something else goes wrong. I remember putting up a site in the past using MS Publisher and I did not have this much trouble (they used to have a web publishing wizard that took you though it step by step).

 

I have two other Web sites that I paid someone to make for me and I don't want to pay anymore. I bought myself an HTML book to teach myself, but in the meantime, I thought I'd get a simple MS Publisher site up. It's not turning out to be as simple as I remember it.

 

I finally have my pictures up, but after following suggestions on how to get my link back to my home page to work, my pictures started disappearing again so I had to go back to square one. I'm ready to scrap the whole project and start fresh.

 

At this point I've uploaded, deleted, and uploaded again so many files into the control panel, I don't know what should be there and what I should get rid of!

 

Thanks for listening to me vent, I needed that! Yuck!

[RJSkon]

Arghhh! I'm getting so annoyed. Everytime I think I'm almost there something else goes wrong. I remember putting up a site in the past using MS Publisher and I did not have this much trouble (they used to have a web publishing wizard that took you though it step by step).

 

Liz

 

Don't give up the ship, as Jim said, just create a simple two page site and publish it, it's very easy, you'll get the hang of it.

 

That Publishing Wizard was included in MS Publisher 98, that has now been eliminated with MS Pub 2002.

 

Have you tried the "HELP" button in MS Publisher?

Click on HELP, than on the "Index" tab, enter the text (Web Site) and than click on search, 42 Topics will appear, from creating a site, testing your site and publishing the site.

 

BTW, I also did like the earlier version of MS Publisher.

 

Richard

[TCH-JimE]

Liz,

 

Don't give up and keep pursing. Once you have read that html book and understood a few things, you will become a wizz at everything and will never need to use a MS package again!

 

Jim