Web page photos

[Guest]

Before anyone says anything, yes, I know that Word is probably one of the
worst programs to use for web design, but all I need is two pages - the rest
of the pages will be .pdf files.

All I want is one photo on the intro page and whenever I publish my site,
everything shows up fine (links all work) but the photo shows up as a red x
placeholder. I have loaded the photo file to the directory with all the
other pages.

I was told by one of the computer people at work that my page refers to a
folder that doesn't exist. But seeing as I am using Word to make this, I
have no control over what folder it creates/uses, do I? I did look at the
html code and found where it refers to this folder, but this is why I chose
to use Word - I really don't have a clue about code. I also don't want to
purchase a program just for two pages.

Is there a better, also 'free' way to create these two pages? I tried
publisher too, but got the same result.

 

[Jezebel]

When you publish your file to the intranet, you also have to publish the
photo. Open the HTML document in Notepad, find the reference to the photo
and remove the folder information completely -- it should show just the
photo filename. Then publish the html page and the photo to the *same*
folder on your intranet.

 

[Guest]

Okay, so where it says <link rel=File-List href="index_files/filelist.xml">
<link rel=Edit-Time-Data href="index_files/editdata.mso"> I just delete
those lines altogether and not replace them with anything? It's this
'index_files' that is the folder that's being created without my asking and
those are the two places I can see it referred to.

Then I guess my next questions are these: Why does it do this? And do I
have to do this every time I put a photo in? Doesn't seem too 'user
friendly' and I thought that was the one good thing about using Word for web
pages. It does all this html stuff for dummies like me who have no clue. ;-)

 

[Jezebel]

If you're going to jump in the pool, you need to learn to swim.

The file reference "index_files/editdata.mso" tells the browser where to
find the picture. It's up to you to make sure that that is a valid
reference. Either, create a folder on the server called "index_files" (a
sub-folder of the location in which you store the main file) and put the
picture in there; or delete the "index_files/" bit and put the picture in
the same folder as the main file.

 

[Guest]

Okay, created the folder within my "public" folder on the server and put a
copy of the photo there and then 're-published'. Didn't work. But what I
did notice looking at the html some more, is this line: <v:imagedata src=""
o:title="brynwoods"/> That, to me, says image data source = and it is blank.
Shouldn't that refer to somewhere? i.e shouldn't that be the folder where
the images are stored? The 'brynwoods' is the name of the photo I'm trying
to show.

 

[Jezebel]

Trying to figure out Word's own use of html is the path to strabismus,
insanity, and death.

The issue here is that the file contains not only all the information needed
by the browser to render the page, but also all the information needed by
Word to recreate the file as a Word document. So there are many many
instructions in the html, that are irrelevant to the browser. The photo
title is one such instruction.

As you observed at the outset, Word is a *terrible* way to create web
pages -- just look at how much time you've spent on this trivial problem...

 

[Guest]

Okay, so back to a question in my original post: Is there a better, also
'free' way to create these two pages? I tried publisher too, but got the
same result.

Thanks so much for your help and patience!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I don't know how they are with photos, but two free webpage makers, with
interfaces not so different from Word, are:

Nvu
http://www.nvu.com/index.php

Mozilla Composer (part of the Mozilla Suite)
http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/

Either one should do simple pages fine, I think.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I'll check those out.

 

[Guest]

Tried Mozilla (aka Netscape) and it worked fine - photo showed up with no
difficulty at all. Insert into page, publish and voila. How it should be.