what have i done to my webpage?
 

hi folks,

oh woh is me.

im trying to build a website for my apartment, basically i have too little time or knowledge.

ive used microsoft publisher to make the site, ive got it roughly how i wnt it, ivetried to "publish it to the web", but only the basic text of the first page comes up, none of te lovely pics or anything, anyone any idea what ive done/ not done????

www.bulgariasun.org

hope you can help

I thought you'd use frontpage or dreamweaver to make a site. Not much help I know.

Not really my field of expertise, but at first glance it looks like you have linked your publisher document to images that are stored locally on your PC. When instead you might have wanted to link them to images that are already hosted on the web...

Dont know might be barking up the wrong tree but thats what it looks like is happening.

I think you need to FTP to the server and upload the files of the pics then make sure the links point to those files

web design is not really my thing, but of you look at the page source html (right-click then "view page source, or similar) you can see that the page is referencing src="index_files/<filename>. you probably need to copy your index_files directory & its contents to the webserver

chuck all the images to the root of the web host where your index.htm sits.

What did you do wrong?

1) You used Microsoft Publisher. You're new to web design, I can forgive you for now :P As mentionned above, look into DreamWeaver or FrontPage (preferably the former).
2) You used a WYSIWYG editor. But then, you're new to webdesign & you don't know any better. You'll learn, eventually.

Right, **** taking out of the way, the serious stuff.

That means the browser should look at www.bulgariasun.org/index_files/image4941.jpg for the picture that tag corresponds to.

As others have said, you need to upload the pictures to your host too. Make sure you put them in the right place. Your webhost will be able to give more accurate details, but when you login via FTP, if you see a www or html folder, you need an "index_files" folder under that, and that's where you put the images. If you don't see www or html folders, chances are, you can just put the index_files folder in the main (root) folder. Then put the pictures in it.

A word of caution, Publisher is pathetic at uploading files to the server, so you're probably better designing locally, then manually uploading. Also, ALL WYSIWYG editors write damn sloppy HTML & are best avoided. But the knowledge of what you're doing comes with time, so don't worry about that, it's just a pet hate of mine.

Feel free to PM me any more questions, or use the thread :)

HTH

I'm guessing your index.htm file is sitting in the 'index_files' folder. With your code you're telling it to look for images in a folder called 'index_files' in the same folder, which there won't be because you're ALREADY in that folder...

Try removing 'index_files/' from your image code on index.htm.

i.e. instead of
set them to
etc...

:)

Ping, good in theory. In practice, most Microsoft applications take the name of the htm(l) file, and create folder based on the name.

So for example you have blah.htm, most Microsoft applications will create a blah_files folder, in the same one as the htm file, then put all related files in that folder.

So I suspect index.htm is in the root folder, and it expects the pictures in a seperate, sub-folder.

Also, when a browser fetches a document, it pulls the HTML down, inspects it, then runs off & does a separate fetch for all documents (eg pictures) included within the original source. It doesn't care what folder you're in, unless the tag sources start with "./" (eg, "./index_files/mypic123.jpg"). The "./" then matches the current directory.

Only you will know what you've done........how did you transfer the files to the server? FTP software (I recommend CuteFTP, btw) or by built in uploading with publisher?

If the former, visit your site throught the FTP software and see what file structure you have on the server and check that it matches that on your PC. If not then make it so and make sure the files are where they are supposed to be.

As a general rule, your better off using software for its primary purpose. Publisher is really meant for paper publications. Doesn't help you, I know. Sorry.

If you want a free website builder that's easy to use then try WebPlus from here. It has a DTP-style interface that you'll be used to from publisher but with more web-based features.