Photos not appearing after publishing

M

Mike

Please be very elementary with your responses. I am an old guy who is self
taught.

I have been a Front Page user for about 3 years, managing a local political
party website. Until last week, my rural NC neighborhood has not had DSL.
All my website work has been done via dial-up.

Last night, I updated info on the site, saved it and published it for the
very first time using my new DSL. But upon viewing the website online, and
upon going back to my Front Page file to check, I found that all the photos
disappeared, leaving only a border and an "X" in a small box in the upper
left-hand corner. This happened to every photo....new ones just put on the
site, and old ones that had been on the site for many months. All the text
remained. This impacted only photos.

I wrote my server, Dayanahost, and they told me to delete and replace a few
photos to see if that would work. I did that and when I tried to save the
work I received this message in a Front Page pop-up window.....

"Because this page has a base URL set, you will need to save any new or
changed pictures to the web site as a separate step"

I don't understand what it is asking me to do. i don't know what a "base URL
set" is, or what they mean to "save pictures as a separate step"

I've always just updated info, set the text and photos in a way that looked
good, saved the work and published the site. Until now, no problem.

Dayanahost says this should have nothing to do with now being on DSL instead
of dial-up. Did I hit a button I should not have hit? What did I do to screw
this up, and what do I do to fix it?

Please help and please be very elementary in your response. I would be
available for IM communication or a phone call to anyone who can help me.

Thanks,
 
R

Ronx

The base URL is a tag located in the <head section of the page.
Switch to Code View, and near the top of the page look for a tag similar
to:

<base href="http://www.example.com"> (the URL after href will be
different)

Delete this tag.
The republish the page and images.

If you are hosted on a Unix server make sure that the image names have
the same CaSe as the links in the page that point to them - a Unix
server is case sensitive, and image.JPG and image.jpg will be treated as
two different files - the links will work on your PC, but not on the
server.
 
M

Mike

Ronx -

Thank you for your quick response. I am not seeing what you asked me to
see. When I go to Code View, under the "view" menu, nothing happens. When
I click on one of the outlines where the image should be a symbol saying"IMG"
appears on that bar. When I drop down the menu from that "IMG" symbol,
several commands appear that freference tags. Am I at the right spot....if
so, what do I click to solve the problem.?

If we could talk on the phone or IM, it would be great. I must leave for an
appointment. I won't be back until around 6pm east coast time. What time
zone are you in?

Thanks again,
 
R

Ronx

I don't do IM, and my time zone is GMT.

You must be in Code View - the <head section of the page cannot be
reached in Design or Normal View.
If you are using FrontPage 2003, open the page then click on the Code
tab at the bottom of the design pane.
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (Expression)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
 
M

Mike

Thanks again for replying. And I am sure I am becoming a pain.

The tech guys at my server sent me a response before I got yours. They told
me what you are recommending. However, there is nowhere in the listings of
code that reads <base href= anything at all

The word "base" does not appear anywhere
 
T

Trevor Lawrence

Mike,

I have not read much of this thread, but I can say that without a <base .>
tag, there will be a default. In fact the references will either be absolute
(e.g.
"http://www.example.com/images/mypic.jpg" ) or relative to the folder of the
current page ("images/mypic.jpg")

So please send the address of the website (i.e. change
http://www.example.com to what it actually is) and I (or someone) can look
at the code. (Maybe you sent it before, but I missed it)
--
Trevor Lawrence
Canberra
Web Site http://trevorl.mvps.org

Mike said:
Thanks again for replying. And I am sure I am becoming a pain.

The tech guys at my server sent me a response before I got yours. They
told
me what you are recommending. However, there is nowhere in the listings
of
code that reads <base href= anything at all

The word "base" does not appear anywhere
Click to expand...
 
M

Mike

Ronx,

Between you and the tech guys at my server, my thick skull got it and fixed
it.

Thank you very very much for your patience and assistance. I really
appreciate it.
--
Mike in Warren Co, NC


Mike said:
Thanks again for replying. And I am sure I am becoming a pain.

The tech guys at my server sent me a response before I got yours. They told
me what you are recommending. However, there is nowhere in the listings of
code that reads <base href= anything at all

The word "base" does not appear anywhere
Click to expand...
 
M

Mike

Trevor,

After stumbling a couple times. The help I received here from Ronx and the
tech guys at my server got me straightened out. I'm back up and running.

Thank you for responding, though. It's comforting to know there are so many
folks out there who can lend assistance

Thanks again.
 
J

John

Mike I have the same problem as you did. When I first published my site the
pictures were there, then I did something wrong and they dont show up
anymore. What was the fix that you used?
 

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