broken banner links

newbie here - looking for help

[mr mcgillicutty]

Hi,

I'm new to the webmaster world (both) and i'm having problems with several broken banner links on my site. Is there an easy way to explain the process (in layman's terms)? some work some don't.

thanks,

mr mcgillicutty

[wkitty42]

welcome to webmaster world!

in many cases, the easy way is to post the code along with the question in the proper forum under a related or new thread... the main thing to remember is to also widgetize stuff so that it is generic... generally this means talking about widgets instead of specific items and also by altering the domain name in urls to something generic like example.com...

so... you've got some that display their banner gifs and others that don't... are the gifs hosted on your site or on another site? are the links/banners done with your code or some you had to copy'n'paste into your page?

[mr mcgillicutty]

thanks for your response.

they are mostly copied and pasted, and are on our site hosted by another.

i've included my homepage so you can take a peek if you need to. www.free-satellite-tv-direct.com

[wkitty42]

firstly, don't post specifics... you could put it in your user profile if you liked or just use the stickymail to send it to someone when they ask... that's what i was talking about when i said to widgetize and genericize your code and postings... since you are a new member, the edit button hasn't appeared for you yet... it won't until after you've posted so many messages so a moderator will be by and edit that url out... don't post any specifics...

anyway, i've looked at your site and the best thing i can tell you is to go back and ensure that your IMG SRC's are pointing to the proper directories and files... you do not want any of them to be pointing to file:///c¦somedirectory... also ensure that you are using the same case for the filenames... on some servers, ONE.GIF is a different file than one.gif...

[mr mcgillicutty]

thanks so much for the advise. i will try it.