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why won't my website work?
hey there i built a site for a friend's small business, and everything looked great in dreamweaver, as well as when i previewed it in a browser. but after uploading all the files to the site, none of the pictures will display. i don't understand, please help!
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it seems my file associations are wrong, but i don't know what i did wrong. it still seems right in dreamweaver! even the background won't show up! what am i doing wrong? thanks!
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Re: why won't my website work?
Hi there Alec I think it maybe because of the folder structure see below how you have jpg./logo.jpg change it to jpg/logo.jpg you will neeed to do this in dreamweaver delete the site off the server and reupload it.
http://www.geocities.com/dti_lmf_1976/jpg./logo.jpg
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Re: why won't my website work?
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Re: why won't my website work?
Originally Posted by alecsputnik
hey there i built a site for a friend's small business, and everything looked great in dreamweaver, as well as when i previewed it in a browser. but after uploading all the files to the site, none of the pictures will display. i don't understand, please help!
Untitled Document
it seems my file associations are wrong, but i don't know what i did wrong. it still seems right in dreamweaver! even the background won't show up! what am i doing wrong? thanks!
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The first thing that comes to mind Alecsputnik is GeoCities itself. Their servers add coding on top of what you have done. It often creates problems. Without seeing your source coding and directory tree it will be difficult to diagnose the problem. 
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Re: why won't my website work?
Feel free to remove this if you feel it is breaking any rules but www.simplywebhost.com offer a great free hosting packages. 500 mb of web space, 5 gigs of bandwith, free subdomains and no adverts at all. I use them alot, fantastic support as well. If, what Lord chance has already mentioned, it being a geocities issue then you should really check these guys out
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Re: why won't my website work?
Yep its the image urls, another good free web host for small sites is Free Web Hosting with PHP, MySQL and cPanel - cPanel 
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03-19-2008
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Re: why won't my website work?
i tried to change them over into that folder, and the same problem occurred! i saw that immediately, and thought oh! easy fix! nope!!!!
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03-19-2008
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Re: why won't my website work?
Originally Posted by Lord Chance
The first thing that comes to mind Alecsputnik is GeoCities itself. Their servers add coding on top of what you have done. It often creates problems. Without seeing your source coding and directory tree it will be difficult to diagnose the problem.
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this seems like it might be the issue, my friend insisted on using geocities (i have no idea why) maybe convincing her to change the location of the files is the next step!
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03-20-2008
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Re: why won't my website work?
Originally Posted by alecsputnik
this seems like it might be the issue, my friend insisted on using geocities (i have no idea why) maybe convincing her to change the location of the files is the next step!
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As a work around try using the full path to your images instead of coding them relative to the root directory.
Instead of using this....
** background="../jpg/background.jpg" **
use this...
** background="http://us.geocities.com/dti_lmf_1976/jpg/background.jpg" **
I know it adds extra weight to your site coding but it might get you going untill we figure out what the true problem is.
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03-20-2008
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Re: why won't my website work?
geocities IS adding code! this sucks!
it keeps adding my username in front of the pictures, so they won't show up!
i tried to use the simply web hosting site that was suggested, but i'm not really familiar with how to upload stuff via FTP. i'm using dreamweaver. it keeps telling me that my login attempts are failing, but i know i'm putting in the right name and password. there should be walkthroughs for everything on the internet! arg!
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Re: why won't my website work?
Originally Posted by alecsputnik
geocities IS adding code! this sucks!
it keeps adding my username in front of the pictures, so they won't show up!
i tried to use the simply web hosting site that was suggested, but i'm not really familiar with how to upload stuff via FTP. i'm using dreamweaver. it keeps telling me that my login attempts are failing, but i know i'm putting in the right name and password. there should be walkthroughs for everything on the internet! arg!
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Once you get the hang of it you will never want to use anything else Alecsputnik. FTP lets you have more control over your file transfers to your account. Try finding a FTP client you like. They can be as complex as WSFTP or as simple as TinyFTP. Oh...by the way. With these servers, account setuo can take a few minutes or a few hours. Most ask you to be patient for at least 24 hours before you get worried. Keep trying 
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Re: why won't my website work?
Originally Posted by Lord Chance
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