veiwing my website

A different veiw

[new2this]

I'm new to website design so this may seem a bit silly but I was wondering if there was anyway to veiw my website from the customer point of veiw. let me explain a minute, my website does not support FTP so I have to manually upload files. When I look at my website it looks fine but when I go to the library to look at it sometimes the page I thought was good is missing images and buttons. How can I check my website from the library point of veiw with going to the library most of the time it's already closed when I'm working I would thank anyone who could help me.

[meanweaver]

When you upload any site you should do the following at least, see how it looks in different browsers, Then check it with differant screen resolutions, starting at least from 800 x 600 upwards.

If things look ok there then check your not looking at a cached page by clearing out your history under the tools/internet options, if things still look good then type the full url of your site in ie starting with [,...] the reason i say this is if you have a folder on your desktop called www.yoursite.com when you type into you url on your browser it will look at the site in that folder on your hard drive instead of the site on the server.

Hope this helps, these are things i have learnt by my own mistakes when still new to web design.

Regards Ian

[DaveAtIFG]

If I understand your question... Web browsers maintain a cache of infrequently updated files associated with web pages you've visited, to speed web surfing. With most browsers, you can press and hold the shift key on your keyboard as you click the browser's Refresh/Reload button to force the browser to reload the entire page into it's cache. Much easier than going to the library! ;)

[rubenski]

As Meanweaver alredy suggests, the images that are not visible in the library are probably grabbed from your harddisk. This explains why you can see them at home and not in the library. Check the image paths in your HTML and correct them.

[SlowMove]

The image and button links are probably pointing at a directory on your drive. You could partition your drive or buy a separate drive, and view your site from there. This assumes that you don't have copies of the image and button files in the same location on the new drive/partition.

[jusdrum]

Sounds like a problem I used to have when I used DreamWeaver to make sites. Before you upload your site, check the source code and see if the img src starts with "file:///", if so, you can do a search and replace command to delete the unnecessary parts of the file path.

For example: if your file path shows "file:///drive/root-folder/images/image1.jpg" you can search for "file:///drive/root-folder/" and replace it with nothing (just leave the replace text field blank). This can save a lot of time.

Also, if you want to know why that happens, I found that DreamWeaver would add those "file:///" stuff to my html documents when I would choose the "save as" command and save the html document into a different location. DreamWeaver is changing the file paths because it knows the images are now in a different relative location. If you are going to copy an html file into a new folder, do that outside of DreamWeaver and don't have the file open in DreamWeaver while you are doing it.

Hope this helps.