About AOL images: some AOL users have problems getting good pictures from the web. Some non-AOL users see murky images visiting an AOL site. What can be done?? The answer is right here.
Missing Image #1: the most common cause of images that do not show on web pages is .... the image address is wrong!!
So the first thing to check is 'do I have the right address for my image?'
http://www.myserver.com/my_face.gif is not the same as http://www.myserver.com/~mystuff/my_face.gif.
And how do you find out the address for an image? Put your mouse over it and right click then you'll see the properties of the image - one of which is its full URL (the image address)
Missing Image #2: another cause of missing images (or midi files and the like) occurs with images you want to use with free services like guestbooks or forums hosted by a service provider other than the your own.
Xoom, Tripod and other *free* web space providers have policies that deny the remote loading necessary.
To read about missing images like that - click here.
I've found just the image I want to use - now what?
The best thing to do is to save it to your own computer, and transfer it later to your own web space. That way, if the image is moved from the site where you found it, it will always be available to you instead of getting the 'missing image' image. Copying an image to your own space is the polite thing to do since it does not consume bandwidth from the site you found it on.
Before you copy an image, make sure that it is freely available to you and that there are no copyright problems. Don't steal someone's work!!
Step 1 is to put your mouse on the image and click the right button. This causes a 'menu' to drop down. The image below shows that drop down with Imternet Explorer (Netscape is basically the same). If all you need is the web address for the image, click Properties and carefully note the full image address. If you need to save the image, click Save Picture As and follow the prompts :)
Next, you will see a box like this. The image type MUST NOT be changed (or the image will not show), but the name of the image can be whatever you want. And you can save the image in any folder (directory) on your computer's hard drive or on a floppy disk - your choice.
So how do I get an image on my page?
If you are using WebTV, you'll need to use a transloader service to do it. Search the web for 'transloader', and you'll find plenty.
How you get an image from your computer's hard drive to the web space you have on a server somewhere, may depend on what services came with your web space. Some *free* services simply do not permit you to upload your own images for use ... time for a different service. Visit the home page for your web space provider. For example, if you have a web site hosted by Fortune City, then visit www.fortunecity.com.
The web space provider's home page should provide Help or Information or FAQ pages about how to upload. In many cases the Editor that you use for creating and modifying your web pages allows you to 'browse' your own computer and select files to upload.
And the very best way to upload images - as well as manage your own web space - is to use an FTP (file transfer protocol) program such as CuteFTP or WS FTP. Good Luck!
Getting them there fast!!
Nothing is quite as bad as visiting a web site and finding that the pages take hours to arrive because the images are such large files. Be sure that the images on your page are really worth the wait. Remember that you may be seeing them from your computer's cache, not downloaded over the Internet.
Try an Internet search for 'free image compression' to find an on-line service which can reduce the file size of your images for faster downloading and a more pleasurable visit to your web site. For a much more complete discussion of this topic - and plenty of image tips - visit the original webmaster EH site at clik.to/somewhere. You can get there from here by choosing the Design for beginners link opposite.
