A little help please: images not showing on my site...

by rekid

Posted: 16 years ago 8 replies

WEB DESIGN

Hi,

I'm pretty new to html and I've run into a little problem that I'm sure someone knows the answer to.

I uploaded my html file (for one page of my site) into the public_html section of my hosting account. I also uploaded the image files into that section as well.

The text for the web page is visible (naturally), but the images don't show.

What do I need to do to fix this?

I'd greatly appreciate some direction.

Thanks

#images #showing #site

gottahave 16 years ago

What's your site address?

Have you tried uploading your images again.
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iBBnet 16 years ago

Check your source code and see if you are referencing your images properly. They could still be pointing to a folder in your local computer...
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- gottahave 16 years ago
  
  Hi Bryan
  
  That's a favourite ploy of my wife but she is learning.
  
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  iBBnet 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by gottahave
  
  Hi Bryan
  
  That's a favourite ploy of my wife but she is learning.
  
  Yeah, I remember those days myself. I still stumble once in a while, especially when I'm in a hurry
  
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- rekid 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by iBBnet
  
  Check your source code and see if you are referencing your images properly. They could still be pointing to a folder in your local computer...
  
  Yes! That was the problem! I was using NVU...
  
  The image location was on my computer:
  
  <img src="C:\Documents and Settings\yourPC\Desktop\user\folder\images\image.j peg">
  
  instead of
  
  <img scr="www my website (dot) com / image . jpeg">
  
  I'll look back to this and laugh. One of those newbie things huh
  
  Thanks to everyone who added. You guys are the best!
  
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iBBnet 16 years ago

We all have our moments

Glad to be able to help find the problem.

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- Steve Diamond 16 years ago
  
  Of course, the way to make it work both on your local hard drive and on your website, without having to change anything after you upload, is to use relative references rather than full references, like this:
  
  HTML Code:
  
  <img src="image.jpg" />
  
  Or, more commonly, put your images in a subfolder:
  
  HTML Code:
  
  <img src="images/image.jpg" />
  
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  gottahave 16 years ago
  
  I endorse what Steve has said. Create an "image" folder and place all your images there and link your graphics to that folder.
  
  Some web editors automatically create an "image" folder when you create a new site. Having this separate folder makes great sense when you have a site with 50 or even 20 different graphics.
  
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