Hi Janine,

The guy who created our church Web site has moved away, and the church staff understands little about web development. I have just as limited knowledge but am a graphic designer so if I can figure it out, at least our pages will look pretty!

The problem I’m having is when I set up pages with photos or imported graphics. When I upload the page to the server, although the images are imbedded in the page, they don’t show up (I get the dreaded X’d image). I’ve uploaded the images to the same folder as the index page and also placed them in a designated image folder. Neither fix makes any difference.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help,
Anne H., Littleton, CO

Hi Anne,

There are so many reasons that photos may not show up properly when you upload your Web site. It can be a bit tricky to find the problem sometimes, but one of the best ways to avoid this problem is to make sure you’ve used Dreamweaver’s site set-up feature and saved all your files in one main Web site folder. That way when you upload your site everything stays in the same relative location and links and images don’t break.

Another common, and easy mistake, is to name your image files with spaces or special characters. Although they will work on a PC or Mac computer that way, most Web servers are UNIX, which can’t handle spaces or special characters in filenames, so as soon as you upload the site, the image links break on the server.

If that’s not your problem, it may have to do with where your images are stored. You said you tried saving them next to the index file as well as in a separate images folder. Either option should be fine, but you have to make sure that when you set the link to the images they are in the same relative place on your hard drive as they are on the server.

Hope that helps you solve your broken image problem.

All my best,
Janine

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