Ok then... You worked in Adobe Photoshop for 6 1/2 hours to perfect that buttonized logo for your new dog washing service. Save it, loaded it carefully, and opened up your web page. The bold enticing title of the page is Dog Washing Service! The text is carefully edited, spell checked and formatted.
This page looks HOT!!!!! Except.......
THERE IS NO FRIGGING PICTURE!!!! THE PICTURE YOU SPENT HOURS ON IS NOT THERE!!!!!
What'dya do?
First, you need to see what your browser THINKS is supposed to be there. Right Click on the red X and slide down to Properties. About the middle of the page it says Address (URL) followed by something like:
http://www.yourdomainname.com/images/New Dogwash Logo.jpg
Yup, that's right... why the red X?
- Most Unix and Linux servers don't understand spaces in filenames. SOMETIMES the program you're using to publish the page (e.g. FrontPage, Dreamweaver, NVU, etc.) might insert underscores when the file is published. Most of the time, they don't. Even so New Dogwash Logo.jpg is NOT the same as New_Dogwash_Logo.jpg. Either the name of the picture file, or the code for the page must be changed.
Ok, you change the code and the filename, and republish. Still a red X. Now the properties show...
blahblahsiteinfo.com/images/NewDogwashLogo.jpg
- You look in the images directory on your webserver. It is EMPTY! When you publish a page containing images, you have to be sure that you also publish the image directory... If you publish the ENTIRE SITE at once, this will happen automatically. But if you only publish one page, or a few selected pages, it won't.
Ok, you publish the picture file to the images directory of the server STILL a red X!!!! Grr-r-r-r-r-r-r!
- You look in the images directory ON THE SERVER, sure enough the file is there... RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOU!
newdogwashlogo.jpg --- WHY THE RED X?????????
- Because your CODE says... NewDogwashLogo.jpg NOT newdogwashlogo.jpg.... HUH?????
- On most UNIX and Linux systems, upper case and lower case are NOT the same!!!!!
You change your code ONE MORE TIME... newdogwashlogo.jpg and VOILA!!!!!!! YOUR LOGO IS ON THE PAGE!!!!!
OK run out to celebrate... CHAMPAGNE IS ON YOU!
more soon,
Ron
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