missing photos on web pages

[SimpleWebGuy]

The photos on my Publsiher 2003 document do not appear on my web site,
www.skigroup.net.
I have been through various threads on this forum, and the most obvious
problem is that the images have not been uploaded to the website. I
published site via Publisher, Publish to the Web, which I understand is
supposed to upload all of the image files, but that didn't work either.
I have tried to upload the 2 images using an FTP program, and the images get
uploaded, but not still not found by the site.
What is the simplest way to do this w/o going totally crazy???

 

[DavidF]

When you Publish to the Web, Pub 2003 produces an index.htm file and a
index_files folder, which contains your images and the other pages of your
site. You do not upload the images separately...you upload the index_files
folder along with the index.htm file. Try publishing the HTML output to a
folder on your desktop, and open the files and look at them...that is the
easiest way to see what needs to be uploaded.

DavidF

 

[SimpleWebGuy]

What you say makes perfect sense, from a rational standpoint. However,
Publisher appears to have some sort of built in simplicity compicator when
publsihing web pages.

I looked at the subdirectory index_files on my hard drive. Sure enough, it
had the 2 photo images as jpg files, along with gif files of some lines that
were on the web page. I manually uploaded the 2 jpg files (image008.jpg &
image011.jpg) to the directory on the web with the index.htm file, and still
X for photos on the website. I then looked at the HTML that Publisher was
generating to see where it was looking for the photos, and one of the lines
follows:

<v:imagedata src="index_files/image008.jpg"
o:title="Wayne's-group---Red-Lion-Va"/>

It appears to be looking for image008.jpg, but in a subirectory index_files.
I tried to create a sub dir on my web server named index_files, but it
wouldn't let me - probably something to do with the underscore.

What you can tell me to break the code on what has to be one of the simplest
web functions, putting pictures on Publisher web sites?

 

[DavidF]

I like your comment: "built in simplicity complicator" <grin>...

The "simple" part you are missing is that you do not upload the pictures
separately...you upload the whole index_files folder to your site. Part of
what might be throwing you is Publisher makes several copies of the images
that you embed in your Pub doc, with the goal of providing/loading the best
version depending on the browser. This means that the index_files folder
that is generated when you Publish to the Web, has a number of
images...upload the whole folder right along side your index.htm file.

DavidF

 

[SimpleWebGuy]

Dang - I finally got it to work, somehow or other. I went through the whole
Publish to Web rigamarole with Publisher, but it did not create an
Index_Files subdirectory on my webserver. So I made my own index_files sub
dir on the web server, then manually copied over the jpg files, and voila, I
have photos on skigroup.net.

One would have assumed that using the standard Publish to Web option would
have accomplished this simple task. Why Publisher, which purports to be a
simple web creation software option, doesn't look for the images in the same
subdirectory that it puts the index.htm files is a little bit crazy.
However, for my simple needs, misson accomplished. Anything more complex,
I'm going to have to go to Front Page or a real web/html program.

Thanks for your help.

Mike

 

[SimpleWebGuy]

It puts the GIFs from the page (lines, Publisher boxes, etc) in the root dir
with the index.htm file, but then requires a seperate sub dir for photos. A
bit kooky.

 

[DavidF]

I am not sure where along the line you got off track, but glad it is
working. In the future, you might reference the three uploading articles
here:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/category/1921.aspx

It really should not have been as complicated as it turned out for you...

DavidF