No images on Web

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My site (http://www.angeltowns2.com/members/bassdesigns) that I'm working on looks fine on my desktop, but for some reason, none of the images show up on the web. They're all there, but they don't show up. Considering all the backgrounds are images, this is a pretty big problem. Anyone got an idea why this isn't working?

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You need to change the path to your images.
Right now you have
../images/home_on.png'

What you want is
images/home_on.png'

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Ok, that works for html on the internet, but not css, or my computer.

I tried /images/home_on.png' And that doesn't work either. I'd hate to have to resort to using full paths, so any other help would be appreciated.

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You don't have the same set up on your desktop as on the web. Either work live or make the change via a search and replace afterwards.

"/images" won't work on your desktop unless you're running a virtual server.

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This is what I can tell about your file structure...
Your css is at http://www.angeltowns2.com/members/bassdesigns/css/
Your images are at http://www.angeltowns2.com/members/bassdesigns/images/
and your page is at http://www.angeltowns2.com/members/bassdesigns/

If you simply put /images/home_on.png in your css or html, it will go to the top level folder (which would be http://www.angeltowns2.com/) to find the folder "images". What you want to do is point toward the place where your images folder is at.
You can either put
/members/bassdesigns/images/IMAGE.png'
or in your css file...
../images/IMAGE.png'
and in your html page
images/IMAGE.png'
It's just a matter of pointing to the right place to find your files.

gotta finish redesigning my sites so I can show them again.

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ive got the same problem. will your answers work for me? all my text is there, but no images or buttons for links. my page is charlescjones.com

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Are you sure you uploaded your images to the server?
The only image in the "images" folder is resize banner.JPG.

Double check to make sure you're images are uploading.

gotta finish redesigning my sites so I can show them again.

The purpose of education is... to get more jokes!

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Also on resize banner.JPG......you can't have a space, you need to rename that to resizebanner.JPG or resize_banner.JPG.

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First let me thank you for your speedy reply. The page was made using Web page Maker software. Every thing entered except for the text came from thier templates. Even the background color isnt there. Maybe yall can help me see whats missing in this picture. (pun intended)

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Hmmm.... I don't know Web page Maker software. I am going to assume it's something you have and not something your website server is providing...?
If it's one of your programs then the solution might be a lot simpler than something that might be happening if it's an interface on the server.

Here's my question...
When you upload your page to the server, are you uploading both the html file and the folder of images?
The background color isn't showing up because it's an image too.

gotta finish redesigning my sites so I can show them again.

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Thanks for your help. After reading your advice, I was able to find what I was doing wrong, and now have my images. Thank you very much!

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Glad to hear it's working for you!
Everytime I'm trying to learn something new I have to rely on the kindness of others to help talk me through it. Laughing out loud

gotta finish redesigning my sites so I can show them again.

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Here is something I have been doing for a while on a large site I maintain, it allows me to use "/img/{whatever}" when viewing on my computer. It created a virual drive in windows (just about any version I think).

From the desktop, right click in an empty area, and choose NEW -> SHORTCUT

Then for the "location of item", enter the following:
subst.exe s: d:\websites\summitcollege
Replace S: with whichever unused drive letter you want to use.
Replace d:\websites\summitcollege with the full path to use as the root of your new "drive".

Now on you system, you can either click on the shortcut before editing the site, or if you use it almost daily like me, drag the shortcut into STARTUP in your START -> PROGRAMS menu and it will run when you boot up.

For the college site I maintain, all HREF's and SRC's are based off of the root of the server, and now with the local files, they are in the root of Drive S:, so they link properly. Smiling

-Greg

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