And they said...

[karmageddon]

Okay, the crisis is over and everyone can resume learning stuff and exchanging knowledge. My little mad hatter moment has passed, cuz I GOT A PAGE UP!!

I am one of millions who was injected with mercury that was added to vaccination shots for sixty years. I reacted early and I'm a hurtin' unit.

I'm establishing a site just out of pure necessity until the media blackout ends or whatever. People have a right to know about this.

So, please go see my crude little page. It doesn't have a date or links and it doesn't go anywhere yet. The subject is so enormous that I'm changing design plans by the minute.

You will find a great piece of writing that says what is in my heart better than I could ever say it for myself.

*twirling mouse over my head hoping the cord breaks so I can get a new one*

WooHoo! I did the ftp thing! (now watch, it won't work...)

http://www.designed-to-fly.com



:joy:


I don't have quite this many personalities, but it's close enuff.
Bess

[Dynasty]

All your images are linked to your local hdd XD

[karmageddon]

This reminds me the first time the boys let me play ice hockey with them. The fathers of the boys came to our house to tell my dad that I was off the team cuz they couldn't afford the dentist bills.

In a rare moment, my dad convinced them to make me goalie.

It was forty years before the first woman goalie became a pro.

uh... oh, yea...

I don't have a clue what you are telling me. I understand I screwed up, but... could you tell me a little more?

When I type in the addy, it looks ok to me...am I into my own hard drive?

*thud*

Bess:smack:

[Dynasty]

Ok I should have been a lot more descriptive in that post. But anyway lets take this bit of code form your page as an example

<img src="file:///C:/Program%20Files/Xara/Xara%20Webstyle%203.0/Export/sleepless.gif" width="392" height="101">

As you can see it points to a file from the program files directory, now assuming the images and the html are in the same folder the actual image tag should be as follows

<img src="sleepless.gif" width="392" height="101" alt="Image">

The reason it looks fine when you view it is that the files exist on your hard disk in that directory.

Hope that clears it up.

[karmageddon]

Not your fault.

The only thing dumber than me is a computer.

Okay, I get it.

So when I saved the page as an html with that brain searing blue IE icon, I sorta wondered where it was stashing the gifs.

So, what is the protocol? Do I put the gifs in a folder and then move that separately? And then in the code, do I go: blah, blah, blah, slash, slash, colon, w-w-w website addy.com/folder/mainhead.gif ??

Sorry if I seem to be losing it *again*. I'm just too old to buy into some power tripping bs that this technology has to be so messed up. *covering my own mouth before I get started*... *no, I don't feel violated, I don't feel violated, I'm not depressed!!!*

ahhhhh, that's better...

thanks again. I'll have another go at it.

Bess:shy:

[Dynasty]

Generally speaking you should put your images in a folder, like say an images folder for example.

Then in your src="..." you put src="images/whatever.gif"

When it is uploaded your main directory on the webserver should have your images folder, containing all your images and the root folder (the main one you get to when you login to the server) should have the html files.

[DCElliott]

Bess

Most technology, especially where computers are concerned, has its own consistent internal logic. In fact, without such logic, the things wouldn't run at all. Wehn you write a web page, you should always use RELATIVE ADDRESSES to any images, other pages etc.

Imagine you have a directory on c:

c:\real\foo\bar You put your local development copy of your web page in \foo and other stuff in the \bar subdirectory. So when you have an image your tag looks like <img src="./bar/image.gif"> NOT <img src="c:/real/foo/bar/image.gif"> . When you upload, the destination directory name can be anything, but you have to recreate any child directories. On the server, you may have something that looks like //fs_1033_web/web_data/k/karmageddon that is your "home" directory. When you create a subdirectory /foo on the server (//fs_1033_web/web_data/k/karmageddon/foo) , it is relative to the home, just like it was on your own computer. You write your code so that it can find its "children" regardless of where the home directory lies.

Always use relative addresses, in other words.

[karmageddon]

Thanks guys... I switched to First Page and did a serious one.

I put in the whole url so no wonder it looks a bit jerky... I'll fix that later today.

I have all my graphics ready to go and the biggest one loads in just over 2 seconds. I am saving some time by using colors that are "next to each other" and sticking to 3pairs of hex numbers: like, CC9933 not F25C62

Okay, onward... sorry I sound so flakey.

I started computing in the late 70s and I'm older than dirt. I carried 3.84 GPA at 40 yrs old in computer science.

I always wanted to be an end user. I have stuff to do!

I've been "setting up" Windows for about fifteen years.

I'm not advertising or anything, but my "other" machine is hooked up to my 1,700 program warehouse at www.Lindows.com

Don't want to get all into this stuff, but no person who ever lived will agree that this mammoth technology was meant to enter the world the way it did: ecommerce and porn, with one guy tripping on being king of the world. I respect the work that has been done up to the point of blatantly stopping people from doing what they want to do. We should have about 500 operating systems by now for all the different stuff people want to do.

So, that's my story and I'm sticking to it... thanks... I'll rest and then I'll need help with the blog...


:love:

Bess