I've got my first major site uploaded (DWMX) and I'm crushed to see that the graphics and links are mostly not working properly. I'm (obviously) new to web design, and am working strictly visually thru the MX Suite. It may be something really simple (hopefully) like a reference issue that works fine on the client's local server or from CD but gets lost in translation onto the ISP's webserver.

Here's the client's link: www.ashcraftcompany.com

You'll probably be able to tell instantly what the issue really is. I worked on most of the graphics & text in Fireworks and then exported the files to insert them in DW. Many times, I just dragged the links to the pages into the DW file structure on the right side of the workspace. I also inserted the .PNG files directly into DW.

In talking with their ISP, he's saying that they (Ashcraft, my client) is still using bandwidth from behind his webserver and don't have a webserver of their own yet. The ISP, zipped up the site from the client's server and then unzipped it and FTP'd it to his webserver, as I understand it.

The ISP is fairly helpful but pretty clueless about Dreamweaver, it seems. The idea of "putting" the site that I've used once in the past, sounds foreign to him. He's reluctant to let me FTP directly onto his servers, and I can understand why, I suppose.

I request the help of the forum with these issues:
1) How do I fix this <i></i>quickly?
2) How do I make sure this doesn't happen again?

Thanks so much for your help,

Renn Burling

looks like it's a fairly common thing that beginners do. Your pic files on the server are not where your html says they are.

the easiest way to prevent this when you are building the site is to make sure that your directory structure on the machine you're working on and the one on the server are exactly the same and secondly when you insert your graphics into your pages make sure they are document relative and not site relative.

<img src="www.parrotlinks.com/untitled-1.jpg" border=0>

hope this helps

ASP|VBScript|IIS5.1|Access|WinXPPro & WinXPHome

Great! Thanks for your help, Dave.