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Taylor Hood
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Taylor Hood
Hello polycount goers. I am having a problem setting up my own portfolio site. I am using a service called Easyspace.com and my problem is that I cannot get any images to load. I go into the ftp. Upload three files - Index.htm resumepage.htm and wipspage.htm. The site loads but with just white boxes. I've just tried to send over ALL the files - all the neccesary files that frontpage has made such as images and stuff but I can't send anything other than HTML :S waaah? well I can send PNG but when I put a png in the web/content folder nothing shows up.

Th-gameart.com you can see what I mean.

thanks for your time
Pixel magus.
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  • kwakkie
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    kwakkie polycounter lvl 12
    WHen I look at the soruce code most files seems to be linked to your harddisk (ie: ../My%20Documents/TAYLOR%20PORTFOLIO/PFHardSurface.png)
    or some other folder (ie: HomePage_files/image003.gif). You need to make sure all path names to files are pointing to the online files, not the ones on your harddisk. How did you make your website, what tool/program did you use?
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  • Taylor Hood
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    Taylor Hood
    Oh..thats probably the problem. All I did was make a simple few pages in front page.
    How do I direct them?
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  • Taylor Hood
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    Taylor Hood
    I've took a screenshot of what I have right now.
    I've uploaded 3 html files and to the left you can see I just took folders from frontpage such as homepage_files which has a bunch of gifs but I can't upload them

    vhda2d.png
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  • Taylor Hood
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    Taylor Hood
    I guess it may help to tell you I took the HTML files from another computer I made the site on - is this a bad thing?
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  • Filbot
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    Filbot polycounter lvl 12
    You need to upload your images on to your ftp. Once your images are uploaded, your html code has to reference the location of the images on the ftp server. Easiest way is to make a folder called images and put all your images files in there.

    The HTML should link to your images like so:
    img src="images/imagefilename.jpg"
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  • Taylor Hood
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    Taylor Hood
    Their service is pathetic. 3 hours and still server errors happening. I can't even log onto my control panel and I'm left with a broken site.
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  • Willburforce
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    Willburforce
    Oh hi...

    - is it because you need to call them .html files... some servers are picky?

    - is it because the permissions on the "content" or "public www." folder are not set to Read, Write or Execute.

    (I recently got goDaddy hosting and this was the solution to not being able to delete or re-upload any content.

    Could you not use the mighty filezilla... it's free and you can do a lot with it?

    Just ideas, hope you sort it! I hate getting new hosting for some reason :poly127:
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  • Sage
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    Sage polycounter lvl 19
    If you use firefox for example there is an ftp extension for it called fireftp. That's what I use to connect to my site and upload stuff. it's free. Your provider will give you the settings to use in your ftp client so you can connect with it.

    To edit your html files right click on them open them in notepad. Now you are going to have to rename all the paths so they are not pointing to your computer as mentioned. You might be able to solve this through frontpage though, it might have a feature like define site or something like that and then it save the links properly so they can work once they are uploaded.

    Lets say your site dir is setup like this

    index.html
    and all your images are in folder called images....

    the path on your computer my say something like

    <img src= C: \images\image1.jpg

    that needs to read something like this, in the example used

    <img src = "images/image1.jpg">


    I separated the : \ so it doesn't show up as a smiley but that would have no space in between, just to clarify.
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  • Taylor Hood
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    Taylor Hood
    Okay, I was recommended to publish the site from frontpage. I have to put in my ftp site location, directory (web/content) and then my user name and password. I fill this in correctly and then I get an error. If this is not the way to do it I just don't know how to tackle the structure of the service I'm using. I'm trying to put all the files for 1 page into it's own folder or something.. I'm really not sure. I can upload the html file but as you would guess there is no images. I'm trying to do it thru front page so I can easily put all the files that are neccesary (the images and all) into the ftp but it does not seem to work.

    Okay I just put some of my PNG's of some of my work in their (not in an image folder but just outside it along with my front page) and they showed up on the site. I have tons of buttons I need to make show up aswell and some of them I don't know which are which because, for example button17 could be for my other page... it's pretty confusing to me : )

    EDIT : That is quite weird. I have a folder which has all these gifs in it and a file list.xml and I upload them in along with my index.htm (homepage) but it still looks the same. I have a sh- load of buttons there and that might be the problem... but I don't know which button is for what site :)

    It doesn't seem to like my gif's... I don't know why they are gifs but I can load them up now but they just don't show up guys. It's a very simple site with only a few things going on and like 3 big images.. :)
    The gifs are simple grey banners and some have text on them. They are just pictures. I'm guessing I'm going to have to change them to PNG? Idk why they are gif in the first place. Thats my theory because it likes PNG'S it seems.

    Haha the problems keep on coming. Changin the top gif to BannerTopPng.png was probably not the best idea (well, I still have the gif) because I'm guessing the XML file list cannot read it unless I code it in? I'm totally missing something here :) Edit.. Holy crap.. changing one line of code replacing the gif image to bannertop.png carefully didn't work. I'm sorry if that answers are right infront of me and I sound like a moron :\

    EDIT : Interestingly I cannot view the gifs on Page Info (next to source) but I can with my work in PNG format... it really should work if I change the gifs to png's and change the XML. In my eyes that sounds fine. But I've never created a website before so what do I know, right?
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  • Lamont
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    Lamont polycounter lvl 15
    Fucking lost my reply... well anyways here is what was said in fewer words:

    The links are still bad. I can see the missing images when I correct the HTML.
    Get rid of Frontpage as an HTML editor, try this: http://www.coffeecup.com/designer/
    Properly set up your files how they will be on the site locally.
    Some site hosting server OS's are CaSe sensitive.
    That XML file does nothing for the site.
    The size of your images are kinda big. Even with my net connection.

    If you promise to send me 25 bags of these little bastards, I'll do the site for you.

    http://www.healthysnackstore.com/index.php?keyword=Clodhoppers%20Vanilla%20Graham%20Wafer%20Clusters&page=display&id=238
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