Hey guys. This is what I did... -designed a webpage on frontpage -copied the html code -pasted the code onto a geocities page AND THEN!!! -everything is fine when I view it from the computer I made it on, but when I try to view it on another computer it doesn't work. Please help me.
You'll probably have to save all the images etc. to the geocities site as well, if you already didn't do that....
I looked at your page. You are referencing your own computers hard drive. You have to upload the files to geocities then change the c:/..... to just reference the name of the file
upload this file : background="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/lisa%20sprenkle/My%20Documents/Lisa's%20Briefcase/web%20page%20junk/gry.bmp" and replace the above line with : background = 'gry.bmp'
I am so pissed off with geocities. Everytime I upload a picture it says: files uploaded sucessfully AND THEY'RE NOT THERE. Ugh. I am so frustrated.
I'm going to use my www.tripod.lycos.co.uk account. It has something that connects with FrontPage I believe. I really have no idea what i'm doing. I use my tripod site to upload images for forums only at the moment. So! I know how to do that but I don't think that really helps me with my website. Someone tell me what I need to do. I have no clue.
You need to get to know the ftp process ala a ftp client. FrontPage must have it included? The hierarchy on your remote server that you are uploading to needs to be the exact same as your hard drive, or your browser can't find the image files. (Woohoo 4:00, time for Knight Rider!)
They work on my computer. I doubt i'll have time to get all the links working before I leave for class tonite, but we will see.
Ok, here's your problem. When you save anything on your hard drive, it is located in a folder on that drive. When you link to it in front page, the software is generating a link relative to that folder. So, you get a link that looks approximately like this... img src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/ lisa%20sprenkle/My%20Documents/ Lisa's%20Briefcase/pictures%20of%20stuff/ S_D%20pictures/sdork.JPG" width="97" height="84" On your hard drive, that works fine because you are staring at your computer. However, because no one on the web has access to your computer, they cannot access your hard drive to see the image. When you FTP an image, you are sending it to a remote server located somewhere else. As a result, the file:///C:/ , etc. link will no longer be valid. You can create two types of links that will work. Full Path: This is when you need to link to something not on the same site as yours. For example, if you want to link to an image on CNN's website so it will display on your page, you would need to enter the entire URL in that link... i.e a href="http://www.cnn.com/images/image.jpg" Relative Path: If the file resides on YOUR website - the same website where the actual html files are located - you can use a relative path. This means that it will search for that file in the same location as the current document. For example, if you have your page on the site called index.html, any image in the same folder at index.html could be designated like this... a href="image.jpg" The browser looks in the same folder as index.html for the file image.jpg and displays it. If the image is inside another folder, you might use something like this... a href="graphics/image.jpg" indicating that file is in the folder called "graphics" which is in the folder where index.html resides. The folder where all of your files primarily reside (where index.html is) is called the ROOT DIRECTORY. Anything in the root directory can be linked to using a relative path. I know it is confusing. It just takes a little time to figure out. Good luck.
