Problems with pictures

[Fred the Ted]

I'm creating a new website and are having problems inserting pictures. I use
FP 2002. I usually save the picture to my HD (my pictures) and then call it
up, insert it into the page, change the size, save it and send it up the
line. However, this doesn't work on this new website. I've tried saving the
picture to the images folder but I'm still having problems. I think that it's
something to do with the fact that I'm using Autothumbnail as this doesn't
happen if I call the picyutre and save it without altering the size. If I
change the size of the picture and then try to save the page I still get this
pop-up message. "Server Error: The folder that would hold URL
"adultsonlyholidays/Palmanova-0_small.jpg" does not exist on the server.
Anyone know how I can get around this problem?

 

[Joe Rohn]

Hi Fred,

The best ways to work with images that will cause the least amount of
problems is to do all of the work on an image in an image editing program.
After you have the image to the size and quality you want it to be in..you
then *import* that image into your web from your hard drive (probably into
the images folder in your web but it can actually be anywhere) Then finally
if you want to then insert that image into a page..you insert it from the
images folder in your web that you imported it into.

You can use the autothumbnail feature in FrontPage if you want..but you can
probably create better looking thumbnails in an image editing program as
well and also import those.

Stay away from resizing images in FrontPage..if you need them different
sizes..go back and do that in an image editing program as well (probably
saving that image to a new name) and then import that image again into
FrontPage.

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Joe

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[Fred the Ted]

Hi Joe, Thanks for replying. The way you stated is the best way but very time
consuming. I've produced thousand's of webpages where I simply call a picture
from the "My pictures" folder on my HD and then use the Autothumbnail to
reduce the picture to the pre-set size. I can do this on all my other six
websites but not on this new one and I can't think why. Any idea why the
Autothumbnail doesn't work on this new site?

 

[Richard]

Fred - I have a hiking website with thousands of pictures that I have
tweaked, reduced to two different sizes, and then saved into my website using
the full version of Photoshop via a macro. I have never used the FP
autothumbnail feature. Without the macro capability of Photoshop, I agree it
would be a burden working with large numbers of pictures.

 

[Joe Rohn]

Hi Fred,

Although the method you are describing that you are using may seem like
somewhat of a shortcut..I am actually quite surprised that it has worked for
you so often. Many times when people do it that way they end up creating
links to images that are still located on their hard drives rather than to
images that are located within their webs. The really bad part of that
happening is they may be able to still see those images and yet it is very
possible that if it gets published to the Internet that way that no one else
will be able to see them since the paths are pointing to your hard drive
(which they can't see)

If you had the original full sized image open from your "My Pictures" folder
on your HD and then saved that into your web (possibly your images folder)
and then opened it up from there and did an autothumbnail that should also
work...but that is still an extra step (basically the same idea as importing
first) but without doing it that way you may keep running into a similar
problem as you are having now I'm afraid.

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Joe

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[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

Get IrFanview (freebie) and you can batch process your images in 2
seconds...hundreds of them at once...resize, optimize, rename etc.


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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression

 

[Fred the Ted]

Hi all, Thanks for your replies. Yes I could use Photoshop7 but it takes time
and I'll try other option suggested. BUT I still can't see a problem with
what I've been doing for years on other websites but can't do on this new
site. Please take a look at
http://www.all-inclusive-hotels.co.uk/gran-canaria-holidays/riu-waikiki.htm
and you will see two pictures that have been created using the old method. I
import the picture then re-size it with autothumbnail and when I save the
page it saves the picture in both the original and thumbnail size. I then
publish and hey presto. The question I need answering is why can't I do the
same thing on my new website, see
http://www.adultsonlyholidays.co.uk/majorca.htm. These picture I had to
re-size using Photoshop and then save them to the image folder. It takes
considerably longer this way.