I currently have a business with a website thats hosted through www.homestead.com

with homestead they give you this dinky little 'site builder' program to drag and drop files, text, etc to create your own site. I did this about 3 years ago for my company... problem is its way outdated and ready for an update. I have Microsoft Frontpage and bought a template off the net for around $80 and have spent the past 2 months modifying it to work for my site.. Im no professional, but this is looking really really good!!! im very proud of myself considering I have VERY little expierence. I bet if I hired a professional this would cost me thousands of dollars. There will be hundreds of pages on this site...

anyway, enough bragging.... onto my problem

i am totally starting from scratch, the previous site will be of no use to me anymore. So when I started I started saving my files in c:/my documents/my websites/ thats where the .html files are located. and all the jpgs are at c:/my documents/my websites/images

so when u open a page, for example index.html and click on any image and do properties the location is c:/my documents/my websites/images/xxxx.jpg

now when i open up the homestead sitebuilder program, and i upload all my html files and click on "preview" it opens up in internet explorer like it should but without any images.. just empty boxes... well thats cuz i havent uploaded images yet.... so i then upload a few images from my index.html and try and preview again and still nothing, images arent displayed. when i look at the 'preview' of the index page that I just opened and i right click properties of one of those empty boxes it says the location of that file is c:/my documents/my websites/images/xxxx.jpg

so im thinking the reason its not showing up is because of the location.... what do i need to do to make this work... does this all make sense to anyone? hope i didnt make too confusing but like i said, im new and without alot of knowledge

Well, I appologize if these questions seem to easy or unfair to you, but I've learned to cover all bases when a problem like this arises.

First off, try right clicking the for the properties of the empty box images, and copy the URL you see. Then, go to internet explorer, and pasted that URL, and see if the image shows. If it doesnt, chances are you have one of two problems.

One, the file isn't even there. Make sure that your file is, in fact, at that location, and is uploaded in the same relation to your root directory.

Two, you have a typo somewhere in your HTML, slightly differing from that of the image. Check to make sure it is spelled 100% correct, capitalisation and everything.

Those are two main things that I would start with, if that doesn't help, I would be more than happy to give more advice. Also, is there any chance you could show us your site, so we can see what's going on better?

when i right click the properties, this is what it says

C:\Program Files\Homestead\Homestead SiteBuilder LPX\data\user\Sites\_1751352599\images\welcome.jpg

when i put in IE that does not do anything... but like i said before, thats not really where they are... when i open my index file on my own outside this homestead program it opens up just fine with all images working properly. but im offline and all images are directed to correct place... but i think its getting messed up when i upload???

as for showing, i would love to but dont know how because its not published anywhere... id be happy to email someone a zip file if they could host for others to see

when i go to windows explorer, right cick that image this is what it says on my computer

C:\My Documents\My Web Sites\AB Website\images


which is where its directed to in my index file....

Oh I see, theres a temp thing with homestead.

If you want, I can upload your site for you. Just email it to me at trentondavis@gmail.com

It's of no use to anyone else having the image path as C:\My Documents\My Web Sites\AB Website\images that's on your hard drive.

It will need to be to a path on the server to where the files are. Something like
src="/images/picture.jpg" which is called a relative path

ya i understand that it shouldnt be linked to 'my hard drive' because it will be online, but thats the problem. when i created the .html pages offline with frontpage those images are linked to a folder on my computer... when i uploaded those html pages to homestead, those images are still linked to my hard drive....

how do i do that relative path thing you are talking about?

here is message I just sent tech support of homestead.


Okay, i have a couple questions because its still not working.

1. i am going to be using the same domain of www.awardsandbeyond.com but EVERYTHING from the existing site will be deleted. Im starting completly over.

2. instead of whipping out my existing site just yet, i created a new site called awardsbeyond.homestead.com i guess its a little free one you give us... anyway, i started it up brand new, went to file manager and then uploaded my index.html file in file manager. I clicked preview and it opened up in internet explorer like its supposed to, but there are no images... I then chose just one of the images and uploaded it the same way... so in file manager there are just 2 files... index.html and welcome.jpg...

3. i then clicked to publish each file individually and then again as entire site... clicked preview of the index.html file and same thing... no images are displayed, not even that one welcome.html image

4. i then in a new internet explorer window tryed to open up http://awardsbeyond.homestead.com and nothing comes up... why is that? shouldnt my index file come up with

5. when i do view the index file using the "preview" option in sitebuilder's filemanager it looks right, just no images... i then right click where the image should be and click on properties and it says the location of the file is at

file:///C:/Program%20Files/Homestead/Homestead%20SiteBuilder%20LPX/data/user/Sites/_1751352599/files/images/welcome.jpg

well i think that is my problem... i dont think it should link that to my own personal computer, should it have a relative path like src="/images/picture.jpg" or something???

when i built my pages offline with FrontPage I linked images to a specific folder on my own computer, but when I upload to your site is there something else i should do?

6. lastly... do i import the files in the main folder or in the "FILES" folder?


thanks alot, i think with these questions answered Ill be out of your hair... thanks

here is the reply I got:



Hello Scott,

Thank you for contacting us. I hope I can be of some assistance.

To correctly upload the images, you must import them to your file
manager. Once you import them to your file manager, please replace the
images on your webpage with the new ones you have imported into your file
manager, so that the correct image is on your SiteBuilder.

Please use the same instructions in the previous email to import the
images into your file manager.




so are they saying that when Im creating a page in Frontpage, and i put a jpg on my page, i import it from online on their thingy instead of importing from my own computer? for one that doesnt make sense, for another I have no idea how to even do that. when in frontpage, i double click an image then choose the location I click browse and i can search my own computer, but how do I search for it instead their sitebuilder program which is online??

am i totally lost here or does this not make sense to anyone else?

Well, you need to upload the image files along with your whole entire site. When they say to link to your online images in the homestead site builder, they mean to instead point to the image file on your hard drive, but rather to use the URL from where you uploaded it.

And BTW, I got your email, I will take a look at the zip u gave me.

okay, thanks im about to leave work if you get a chance to look that that just shoot me a email back ill check it later at home

Hey bolt, I just checked out your site that you sent me, and well, it seems fine. All images are being displayed properly.

When you upload your site to the internet, are you making sure you are uploading the actual directory on your computer, and not something out of the site builder?

i dont know if you guys are familar with homestead or not, but this is step by step of what I am doing.

1. open SiteBuilder
2. log on
3. open up (started up a new site called www.awardsbeyond.homestead.com, they allow you to have free sites and just didnt want to totally screw up my existing site just yet).
4. start with all blank site
5. click on file manager
6. click import
7. browse my hardrive for the folders and then choose 1 file at a time, it doesnt allow me to select an entire folder or multiple files..

so with a blank site, i import just my index.html and one of the images, "welcome.jpg" for example...

then I save and publish it and when I go to http://awardsbeyond.homestead.com nothing appears at all. While homestead is still open I can click "preview" and a new window appears and it is indeed my index page, just without any pictures, not even the one iv imported...

i wrote this message to tech support


okay, so what you are saying is I should start
completely over. I have nothing uploaded to my
filemanager, no pages, no nothing.... I have the
entire site built offline on my computer using
FrontPage... I then upload all my images (hundreds of
them) with sitebuilder....

i then edit my html pages with frontpage and link the
images to sitebuilder instead of the location they are
on my own computer?

how do I do that? in frontpage to choose the location
you click a browse button and then search for that
file on my computer, how do I search for it here on
sitebuilder?



and then got this response



Hello Scott,


You actually do not have to do that. Just as long as you import the
images into your file manager, then it should work fine. Please try
importing the pages and the files and let me know if you have any
questions.

Thank you for your help and patience.

problem is thats exactly what im doing and its not working....i must be doing something wrong right?

i found a guy who said it was because I cannot upload files with extensions and these files have a Frontpage extension on them.... does anyone know how I remove that or handle it from here?

Well you should be able to just locate the files on your computer, right click and chose rename.

Then, rename them to what they should be, so if they are

index.html.*frontpage extension*

just rename them to index.html