i HATE dreamweaver....

[5pintshefound]

this is a rant, mainly... if you dont want to read a rant, dont read on...

seriously.. i HATE dreamweaver.. it is the most confusing programme.... Usually, i can work my way around a programme.. but that one??? forget it! UGH!

I am a photographer. I have a website... or rather.. i HAD a website... I had my site hosted thru Yahoo for a year.. and it was great... theyre webbuilder was so easy to use... BUT! in moving to the carribbean, with our splotchy internet service, I hadnt been able to access yahoos admin pages... at all.. ever... so, i couldnt delete old pages etc... and since theyre all photo pages.. they were large.. well.. after like a month to 6 weeks straight of not being able to access the admin pages,. i decided to switch to another company. I went with GoDaddy.com. used their 'website tonight' site builder... a week of that, and i still didnt have a site. so, i got dreamweaver, and had a friend help me start building my site thru there... she was awesome.. she sat on messanger.. me in the carrib, her in wales, and we sent pms back and forth, with page views and all- and we got the basic parts of it up in a couple days... then i had to add the photos.. well, according to what i can see, the photos should be showing up... theyre in the FTP file on the web, there in the right file on my computer, ive transferred everything over {using filezilla}but for some freakin reason, they dont show up. all i get is an empty box, with one little X in the corner!?!?!? WTF???? ive called godaddy i dont know how many times.... and theyre cust. support has been pretty good.
i call this am to see, and the guy i talked to said he cant possibly tell me anything because he cant see my script. All i wanted him to do was go into the FTP thing, and tell me if i had the photos in the right place. he kept saying, it doesnt matter, because of the scripting... so , i asked him, ok, then how do i get photos on my site, and he said, well i cant build your site for you! {whatever.. i realize that there are legal issues - because they dont own dreamweaver--- but i dont think its in the dreamweaver end of things, i think its on the FTP site.. i think i uploaded it to the wrong area... but he wouldnt look at it}

I was wanting to have my site up and at least some point functional, before tuesday am, as i am heading back to the states, for some doc appts for one of my kids.... grr.... this is SO annoying....

~5PHF

 

[Ezzy]

Check view page source for the pages that show the photo's, I am betting that your code or filezilla have turned the text for the file descriptors from small to capital text, as in .jpg or .gif into .JPG or .GIF so when your browser looks at the page it is looking for Img src=http://mywebsite/images/000123.jpg and you don't actually have that file what you have ftped is 000123.JPG the browser fails to read the difference as being the same, this is so you could have both 000123.jpg and 000123.JPG and use one name for the 2 photo's.

This is most likely the cause of your troubles. Open up your ftp and right click on the names that are wrong, then click rename and correct the name of the pictures to what the view page source says you put in the code.

And this just goes to show... that sometimes size does matter!

 

[5pintshefound]

Check view page source for the pages that show the photo's, I am betting that your code or filezilla have turned the text for the file descriptors from small to capital text, as in .jpg or .gif into .JPG or .GIF so when your browser looks at the page it is looking for Img src=http://mywebsite/images/000123.jpg and you don't actually have that file what you have ftped is 000123.JPG the browser fails to read the difference as being the same, this is so you could have both 000123.jpg and 000123.JPG and use one name for the 2 photo's.

This is most likely the cause of your troubles. Open up your ftp and right click on the names that are wrong, then click rename and correct the name of the pictures to what the view page source says you put in the code.

And this just goes to show... that sometimes size does matter!

i will definately try that... in the morning... lol, need some sleep before i try to tackle dreamweaver again.... im not a 'crier' but this am?? yeh, it pissed me off enough to bawl.. and thats just silly... grrr damn hormones... LOL

thanks for the advice Ezzy!

 

[SweetErika]

Sorry you're having trouble, 5P...I know how frustrating that is, first hand! DW definitely has a steeper learning curve, and the best way I've found to get through it is to go rather slow, using someone who knows what they're doing and/or tutorials, which isn't much consolation when you're trying to get something up quickly, I know!

I'll see if I can get Hubby to follow this thread - he's very patient and a great teacher, especially with DW. I bet it wouldn't take much to persuade him to communicate with you directly and troubleshoot your code, too, if you still want/need the kind of help you couldn't get from GoDaddy. If he has time, I'll have him post or PM you or something, or just PM me your email addy so he can contact you directly. He loves this kind of stuff.

The DW support area has been helpful to me in the past, and there are forums there as well: http://www.adobe.com/support/dreamweaver/

 

[NippleMuncher]

What version of DW are you using? I use MX2004 and it doesn't auto link image files from the server into the webpage. I build my pages with the images I want, then upload the images to the server, then edit the image pathway of each image from "..//imagefolder/images" to include the server web address, which is in your case is "http//www.go.daddy.com". Once finished you'd have an image link something to the effect of "http//www.go.daddy.com/imagefolder/image"

The latest version of DW does auto find the images from the server so that it's a little more WISIWIG than MX2004 is. I hope this explanation makes sense.

 

[glynndah]

I thought you were talking about the song...oops

 

[done_got_old]

this is a rant, mainly... if you dont want to read a rant, dont read on...



~5PHF

I've used Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Netscape Composer and plain HTML. My sites are done with FrontPage because it was easy. Dreamweaver is more difficult to learn, but the advantages are worth it. Try the 'dummy' book for Dreamweaver, Teach yourself Visually or the Dreamweaver Bible for help.