I have a customised 404 page for my site which works fine and shows all jpgs/giffs if error occurs in main page. However, if a 404 error occurs in a subdirectory the 404 page shows but the jpgs/giffs are missing. Does this mean I have to put the icons in each directory, or is there another solution?
Example:
http://stevenredhead.com/car.html works fine
http://stevenredhead.com/Ecology/fish.html - no jpgs/giffs.
Any ideas how to resolve are most welcome.

You'll have to use static linking to make sure your base page is always the same. If the images are in www.yourdomain.com/images then in order for it to show up, you have to either use the full URL (i.e. http://www.domain.com/images/image.gif) or put a "/" (without the quotes) in front of the directory (which is essentially the same as writing out the whole "http://www.domain.com").

The way your code is written is for dynamic linking. Add a "/" in front of all of the image URLs and you should be good to go.

The only problem with this is if you do testing on a local machine, images won't show up (with some exceptions, of course, i.e. you're testing on a linux box or have all your documents in C: ).

Hi Prissed,

Glad I spelt your name correctly; miss the 'r' out and I could be in trouble!

Thank you for the reply - I understand and thank you for the direction, will give it a try.

Cheers,
Steven
http://stevenredhead.com