how to get images to show up

[whatadoll]

I am using the design feature of FP to design pages and then just copying and
pasting the HTML code into my online store (ebay). The problem is that some
of my images show up fine and others show up as red x's.
I really don't know much about FP or web design and after reading some of
the other help topics, I exported the image several times, opened my FP site
and saved it there (several times), cursed out my computer (several times)
but I still get a red x instead of my image .

So, I'm just gonna start over from scratch. I need detailed, step-by-step
instructions that even a dummy like me could follow to get my image (from
paint) to show not not as a red x.

BTW, I know from reading some of the other posts that you guys are gonna ask
me for the URL, but I dont know it and I don't know how to get it.

Thanx in advance,
Ash

 

[Andrew Murray]

If you're making the code and including a picture of products you're selling
on ebay, then I assume that using whatever method they allow to post the
code, you also need to upload the image to go with it. (images are not
embedded in the code; they are merely linked). So the image has to reside on
a web server somewhere - whether on ebay's server or somewhere else, it
needs to exist on the net to be displayed on your ebay pages.

However without the URL to your ebay page(s) I'm can't really suggest
anything else. You should be able to obtain the URL from ebay site - it
should tell you what the URL of your pages for your products are.

 

[whatadoll]

I'm not posting images of items i'm selling, i'm actually working on my
"about me" pages in my ebay store. I have a lot of text and pictures that I
just saved as a paint image so that I wouldn't have to worry about formatting
tables and etc. in frontpage. The problem is that I keep getting the dreaded
red x, and I don't know how to properly host my image using frontpage so that
it will show up.

I tried just using an image hosting site, but because the image is so large,
it keeps getting autmatically resized to a smaller image and it looks crazy.

So I guess I need to figure out how to do the thing where you open a FP site
and import the image or whatever, but I don't really understand how to do
this...

 

[Tom Miller]

I'm not posting images of items i'm selling, i'm actually working on my

"about me" pages in my ebay store. >

You might try creating your "about me" pages in FP. When you save the page,
make sure it "imports" the image(s) into your /image folder on your
disk-based website.

Then make sure you can view your webpages with the pictures via your
browser.

One of the things that FP does to hide work from the operator is it trys to
manage the links and then convert them during publishing to the website.
This means that simply copying html code can be a problem.

Are your pictures links? Or just pictures. If your just displaying
pictures the html code would look something like this:

<img src="constr4.gif" width="144" height="50">

To have the images in an images folder the html might look something like
this:

<img src="images/constr4.gif" width="144" height="50">

Does e-bay support the front page server extensions? If not, your going to
want to set your FP page options for compatiblity to say it doesn't.

It is entirely possible that e-bay has a "sitebuilder" that will allow you
to create an "about me" for your online store without resorting to FP. I am
assuming that your store is being hosted at e-bay rather than a 3rd party
ISP.

Hope this helps,

 

[Andrew Murray]

No difference; whatever images you want on your ebay pages (product pages or
profile page or whatever, the issue is the same - the images must be hosted
on a web server to be displayed).