The frontpage preview is not the same as web site.

This is my first web site and it's not going the way I designed it.

[taylord2u]

I designed my first site with Frontpage and I'm really happy with it. The problem is when I uploaded the files onto my site provider none of the graphics, images and background load when I go to the site. Is there something I need to add to the code. Am I to do something before I do the upload.

Kevin

[edited by: Marcia at 3:30 am (utc) on Mar. 21, 2003]
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[Marcia]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Kevin.

I'm not familiar with Front Page, hopefully someone will come along soon who is.

Two things to check - first, there shouldn't be spaces in filenames, rather underscores or hyphens should be used if words are separated. Second, sometimes people's images are linked to files on their hard drive when using software, and that won't work once the site is on line.

[bill]

Like Marcia said, it is highly likely that the images are linked to files on your hard drive. FP does this sometimes for disk based webs when you don't have a web server on your production machine. Right click the images on your published site and see where the file path is pointing.

[taylord2u]

Is there a program that I can use that would be better suited for this application.

[dazz]

All you need to do is make sure that you have uploaded all your image files on your computer onto an image folder where you uploaded the website.

Then make sure that your images are uploading from eg. ht*tp://www.mydomain.com/images/mypicture.jpg and not c:/mydocuments/images/mypicture.jpg

Hope this helps!

[edited by: dazz at 4:37 pm (utc) on Mar. 21, 2003]

[rogerd]

For WYSIWYG editing, Dreamweaver has quite a few supporters here.

[Marketing Guy]

Presumeably you have stored the images within the web?

Ie - create new web - set up your site - all graphics saved in the "images" folder?

All the contents of the folder should upload when you publish your web.

One way to test is to preview in browser from FP and right click and save the images to see where the file is saved.

If it's not in YourWeb/Images then its in the wrong place.

Note: your graphics dont have to be in the images folder - just have to be within your web folder somwhere.

If you insert a graphic into your web from elsewhere on your HD, it usually asks you if you want to save the file to our web when you save the page.

If all that is well, then check how you uploaded the files.

If you use FP's publisher then all should be fine. But there can be issues using an FTP programme to upload the files.

What you can do with FTP is to connect and check your web space to make sure your images folder has in fact uploaded.

If you are sure the file paths are correct within your pages and your images are present and where they should be, then contact your host.

I could be a bug with FP server extensions. If it's not, we'll call it a bug anyway. Anything that goes wrong - blame a bug! ;)

Scott