images lost!

[maita]

Hi everyone!

I thing this has happened to many of you and I have tried to look in the forum but I haven't find an answer yet.
While using Nvu to create my Website I have renamed my file or page and when I open the file again I don't have any images this is also creating problems when I try to add links into my page = link properties - link location doesn't allow me to select URL is relative to page location.

Thanks again!

Maita

[troyzone]

Hi Maita,

As you have noticed, there is an option in NVU's Image Properties page that says "URL is relative to page location". You'll want this option checked in order to have your code link to an image in the format src="images/filename.jpg" rather than to a location on your hard drive, which wouldn't work online. Sometimes this option is grayed out though. Here is a quote from NVU help regarding this option:

URL is relative to page location: If checked, Nvu converts the URL to be relative to the page's location. This is especially useful if you plan to publish your pages on a web server so that others can view them. Using relative URLs allows you to keep all your linked files in the same place relative to each other, regardless of their location on your hard disk or a web server.

Unchecking this box causes Nvu to convert the URL to a full (absolute) URL. You typically use absolute URLs when linking to images on other web servers (not stored locally on your hard disk).

If you have never saved or published the page, you must first save the page in order to enable this checkbox. (This checkbox is not available if you open the Image Properties dialog box in a message compose window.)

According to this information, you have to first save your page before the checkbox becomes available for some reason. Just one of NVU's quirks I guess...

If you rename another page or image file that your web page links to, you will of course have to manually update your web page to reflect the new file name. Such references in your web page do not update automatically, they stay coded to whatever you originally linked to regardless of whether or not you have moved, renamed, or deleted the file that was initially linked to.

Hope this helps.

Troy

[maita]

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I can't see my images in my Nvu.
In my documents I have my folder called Tops Site. Inside my Tops site folder I have two sub-folders: one is images,and the other is My tops website ( which is the folder I'm using to create my website). I also have a file called work at home directory-offering the best work at home... and this one is the basic page that Erich gave initially which is saved on my computer.
In my folder the one I'm using for my website I don't see my images anymore! Only appears the image location: images/workingwithlaptop6.jpg
Where are the images then?
I can't move forward if I don't fix this problem and it seems that the more I try and change things the worse it gets.
Please help!

Maita

[maita]

ok I think I got it now!
All I did is that I got rid of all the other folders that were named the same and kept only one, then I kept all my folders and images inside Index folder, then in Nvu I've clicked reload images and then choose the space where the images were before, then insert image, choose file and it did reopened again! Now I have images.
Thank God it works now!

Maita

[troyzone]

Hi Maita,

I'm glad to hear that you got your images to reappear. If you have your images in a separate images folder, it would generally have to be inside of the folder containing your web page. Here is an image Jim once created illustrating the recommended folder structure:

www.theworkathomeindex.com/template/folderstructure.gif

Troy

[maita]

Thanks anyway for your help Troy!

Maita