graphic files on home page

[Robert]

I am a complete novice at web publishing but am computer
savy. I am taking my first baby steps into web publishing
using the Frontpage express that came with windows 98. I
have managed to up-load a basic page through my ISP
provided web space server. The problem I am having is with
graphics. When I edit my page off-line and insert image
files it works fine. When I up-load the new page with the
image files all I get are the place holers..you know the
box with the red X in the upper left corner.
So, my question is, why won't my image files post on the
page? NOTE: I used the page wizard to make the the page
then uploaded the complete page in html to the server via
ftp.
thanks.

 

[JDR]

Robert,

Can you navigate to the image files on the web, i.e
http://www.yourdomain.com/images/yourimage.jpg

If not, double check to make sure you also published the
images and any directories / sub directories they reside
in to the server.

JDR
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[Tom Pepper Willett]

With a web open, File | Import the images into a folder before inserting on
a page and saving.
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| I am a complete novice at web publishing but am computer
| savy. I am taking my first baby steps into web publishing
| using the Frontpage express that came with windows 98. I
| have managed to up-load a basic page through my ISP
| provided web space server. The problem I am having is with
| graphics. When I edit my page off-line and insert image
| files it works fine. When I up-load the new page with the
| image files all I get are the place holers..you know the
| box with the red X in the upper left corner.
| So, my question is, why won't my image files post on the
| page? NOTE: I used the page wizard to make the the page
| then uploaded the complete page in html to the server via
| ftp.
| thanks.
|

 

[Robert]

yes, I can navigate to image files. they are on the
server. but I want to display images directly on the home
page not link to them. i have already successfuly created
links to the images but that is not what i was after.
NOTE: I was under the impression that frontpage was a
WYSIWYG page generator.. so if I put the images on the
page before uploading they should be part of the page and
visible?

 

[Steve Easton]

Images are never "part" of a page.
The link to the image "displays" the
image at the location you specify
"in the page."

 

[Guest]

Webpages are HTML and call up the images. there is no graphic stored in the page.

Publish the whole site with FP using FTP or FP Server Extension mode, whichever your server supports. You may have to go to the server CONTROL PANEL and choose to install Frontpage Extensions.

If you use Web Publishing Wizard, you need to publish all the folders and images.

Right click on the lost images in your published page and choose PROPERTIES to see where the image is supposed to be.

 

[Andrew Murray]

Yes, everything on a web page is a link (even images) : that's the idea behind
the web - it's just a heap of files linked to each other. They are not "part"
of the page - Links include hyper-links (the blue-underlined text links) but not
limited to those...

The <img src=......> tags are links of a sort also, telling the browser where to
find the file to display and no, it's not embedded as you suggest.

Frontpage is indeed a WYSIWYG editor - an HTML editor, not a wordprocessor -
therefore it is only giving you the GUI to place elements on the page, that you
would otherwise hand code in notepad if you knew HTML.

 

[Robert]

Thanks.. you are doing a wonderful job of telling me what
I don't know, however you have not yet told me how to
accomplish my goal. I take it I need to use a "tag" to get
the images to be automatically appear openned on the
page.. any directions on HOW to do that would be
appreciated.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

With your current open FP web (File Menu | Open web/site), import the images
into the web (File Menu | Import or drag/drop), then either use the insert
menu or drag the image onto your page from it location within the current
open web. That all there is to the process.

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[Guest]

thanks.. that is a helpful concept. I found my error.. I
was inserting the images from file rather than from server
address. problem solved.. thank you very much!

 

[Andrew Murray]

yes to get images to display on a page use <img
src=http://www.yoursite.com/images/yourimages.jpg">
where http://www.yoursite.com/images/yourimages.jpg is the path to your image/s
you need an img src tag for each image appearing on your pages.

Sorry I didn't realise I was that unclear.

 

[Andrew Murray]

Also, I was giving you the process via hand-coding, obviously not through FP
interface - I use FP myself, but am used to editing code as well...

You were correct on one point, inserting images is as easy as if you were doing
it in word i.e. Insert > Picture etc....but technically the images are not
imbedded; they are linked via <img src> tags in the code (take a look at the HTML
view and you'll see what I mean).