Newbie Needs Advice

Browser and image

[Pretty_Girl]

Hi all :) I am having trouble with a picture on my site. It's on my about page...or page 5. So far it comes in on Mozilla and Netscape. On AOL and Explorer though it comes in fuzzy. This is one of my biggest concerns on my site right now, there are others.... and all help would be appreciated :) Thanks in advance :)

[Stefan]

Welcome to WW Pretty_Girl.

I've never run into that... it sounds a bit bizarre. Maybe others know and will chip in.

Perhaps you could give us a snippet of the html code that supplies the picture, with the specifics examplified like, "www.example.com/page_5.jpg", so that it's within the terms of service. Did you make the site with a "what you see is what you get" editor? If so, which one? Any other details you can think of might help too.

[Pretty_Girl]

Thank you Stefan :) Not sure exactly what I can and can't put as far as TOS. I'll try. I'm using ipowerweb. I try to use the file manager as much as possible...sometimes with cut and paste... sometimes I just write in some code. I end up using their vdeck web builder more than I'd like to.

Here's part of the code. I don't understand the "Oin Oin" stuff. I think the editor put that in, but maybe it might help in figuring this out. I wrote in everything from the begin paragraph to border=5>.

<P><IMG alt=BlackAndWhite
src="http://example.com///BlackAndWhite.JPG" width="307" height="409" align="left" border=5>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">

Hmmmmmm...I thought I had this fixed MANY times before by changing a few things here and there. Would not putting quotes around my =5 be enough to mess this up? I just changed that and it is now working....but it's done this before where I changed a few things and then it messed up later on.

[edited by: tedster at 7:45 pm (utc) on Feb. 19, 2005]
[edit reason] use example.com [/edit]

[Pretty_Girl]

Is there anyone out there who can help me? It is messed up again. Heeeeellllllllllllooooooooooo? Pretty please.

[Stefan]

Ok. Part of the problem might be that the pic shows in the properties on the page, (I looked), as width="230" height="307", but your code as shown above doesn't have it as that. Going straight to the URL for the pic still has it as 230 x 307. Nevertheless, I looked at it with both Firefox and IE, and I don't see it as fuzzy. Why don't you try changing your code so that it matches the actual size of the jpg and see if that helps.

<added>
Sorry, just checked the source code and it's "http://example.com///BlackAndWhite.JPG" width="230" height="307" align="left" border="5"> Is there some reason for the extra slashes there that I don't know about, (I wouldn't be surprised... all my coding is pretty basic)? Still, I don't see any difference between IE and Firefox when looking at the pic, (600x800 monitor).

Stef

[Pretty_Girl]

Stef,

Hi and thanks :) You caught me in the middle of changing it :) I made the image smaller but I changed the H and W first. Someone said that might be why my other images were fine (they were smaller). It worked for awhile. Back to square one now. I guess there really is nothing I can do about it. AOL has problems. If you got it fine in IE it MUST be my AOL. Or my computer has a virus or something.....I guess I can't fix everything.

I'm self taught on what little I know so....from what I've seen the three slashes go three directories down...or up... or whatever ;) I don't remember where I saw it. Maybe w3c or htmlgoodies....or maybe I was just viewing someones page source....come to think of it...I'll try it without it. Good idea pointing it out, it couldn't hurt to try it, thanks :)

Kat