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**kaiweiler** · 11-17-2003, 12:56 AM

okay, new problem!
When putting a picture on my site should I type where the picture is located on my computer or on the server??
ie
[img]C:\my documents\blah blah blah.bmp[/img]
or should i type

because i tried the first way and they came up fine, but i doubt they would come up when other people go to the site
however when i tried the second way, they did not come up at all, what am i doing wrong??
and when they dont come up it doesnt show the box with the "x" in it, it just shows as if its still loading, but i left it for a long time and they still didnt come up, sop i dont know what im doing wrong

**ScotchGuy** · 11-17-2003, 12:59 AM

Definitely not from your hard drive, it only shows up for you. The picture destination needs to be where it is on your server, if it's taking a while or only loading half-way try uploading it again. The problem may just be a slow server, you can't have really high expectations when your web host was free.

**kaiweiler** · 11-17-2003, 02:53 AM

can anyone tell me what is the source i have to type into my html tag to put a picture on my site?
i am using www.1asphost.com, when im in my file manager there i can right click the pic and say properties, then it says Address (URL) and then a long filename, is that what i type in [img]------------.---[/img]??
someone help me!

**ScotchGuy** · 11-17-2003, 03:12 AM

Example of how to do it, if you upload to the "Images" directory in your FTP and the name of the file is "Picture.jpg"

The correct tag to put into your site would be: [img]Images/Picture.jpg[/img]

If you uploaded the picture to the main directory in your FTP the tag would look like this: [img]Picture.jpg[/img]

Remember, different editing programs have different .jpg extensions. Paint for example is .JPG while Photoshop is .jpg. Capitals do make a difference, make sure your file name in the tag is exactly like the file name in your FTP directory.

I hope this helps.

**I.am** · 11-17-2003, 06:55 AM

Here is one suggestion. Create a new folder. Always store all your images in that. Name it "images". (As also ScotchGuy suggested)
Now create your whole website offline on your computer using WYSIWYG editor like frontpage etc. Use its tools to put in the pictures (as you are beginner this would be a good idea).
Now when you upload just upload the images directory and all the pages. The page structure remains the same so everything will show up.

You don't need to write your whole host name to refer to an image. [img]images/imagename.extention[/img] replace imagename by image's name and extension by image's extension. You dont have to worry about all this if you created everything offline using Frontpage.

Once you know what you are doing you can shift to Macromedia Dreamweaver for all this.

Hope this helps and goodluck!

I.am

ps:Let us know how it went.

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**kaiweiler** · 11-18-2003, 12:15 AM

Thanks folks,
however My pictures are still not loading! this is what i used for the code [img]images\GT4.bmp[/img], what is wrong with this?? the only picture that loads on my whole site is the one on the main page, named index.htm, and this page uses the same code to link the pic, whats the problem here?

**I.am** · 11-18-2003, 12:28 AM

I am guessing you have other page in a different folder? If you have a sub-directory in the root then you have to "..\" to go back to the main directory. You have to know the directory structure for all this.

[img]..\images\GT4.bmp[/img]

I still recommend using frontpage for you in the begining. You wont have any problems. Once you know what you are doing then do what you like.