New And Confused - Please Help

[themadhouse55]

Hiya folks,

I have been with NTL for a while, but i have just decided to make use of my NTL Webspace. Never used it before as i didnt even know i had it until reading through the Virgin info on the website.

I have an FTP ( Ipswitch 2007 pro ) and tried to upload a simple ' under construction ' html picture.
I belive i did this correct through my FTP but then tried to access my webspace

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/annie.price/index.html
but all i got was an error page cannot be found.

Im now lost, im sure problem exists between keyboard and chair ;) but would really appreciate some assistance

Thanks
Annie

[jellybaby]

Its because its called index.htm :)

Did you upload the picture too ??? as I have a broken picture.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/annie.price/index.htm

[Nikesh]

I think I know what the problem is. Your index file is .htm and you've wrote .html.

You can access your website at:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/annie.price/

This will go straight to the index file anyway. You need to upload the image as well.

Hope this helps. :)

Edit: Jellybaby beat me to it! ;)

[Halcyon]

Have you just uploaded a picture on its own as a mypicture.jpg file ?
In that case it will not work. To get to that picture you would have to type http://homepage.ntlworld.com/annie.price/mypicture.jpg

If you want it to appear on your homepage index.html you need to first create a html page, insert the picture into it, and then upload the html page together with the location of the image.

eg. If I placed an image called house.jpg from my images folder and put it on my index.html page I would have to upload the images folder and the index.html page to my webspace.

So you would upload the following:

- index.html
- images folder with the images inside it.

Edit:

I see you have the html page done already. In that case jst make sure the image is also uploaded too.

[themadhouse55]

Hi Jellybaby,
Wow many thanks for the quick response.
I have amended to html but i also get a broken picture now
Why is this ?

P.s. Thank you so much for your help
Annie

---------- Post added at 11:24 ---------- Previous post was at 11:22 ----------

WOW I JUST CLICKED BACK ON THE FORUM AND HAVE ALL THESE REPLIES I REALLY DIDNT THINK I WOULD GET SUCH A QUICK RESPONSE.

oh no Howww Rudeee. I have shouted..Sorry :-)

Thanks again ill read up and get back to you all
xxxx

---------- Post added at 11:28 ---------- Previous post was at 11:24 ----------

Thanks to everyone for the speedy response.

All i keep getting is the ' broken image '

To create my image i used Microsoft Front page. Is this ok ?

Please forgive my ignoranace like i said im sure problem is between keyboard and chair.

Thanks
Annie

[jellybaby]

If you have created a webpage, and inserted a picture, then you need to upload the picture too.

I have just created a quick page to check myself lol

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jellybaby1/test/

Picture I put in was a bit big :(

[themadhouse55]

Thanx JB, You make it look so easy.
Im now wondering if i have not created a webpage correctly.

From the start this is what i did.

1, only found out yesterday about my webspace
2, read up about FTP, got hold of Ipswitch pro 2007
3, Cld'nt get it working at first, then read up on here that i need the original user name and p/w..That did the trick, Thanks again to this forum
4, came back at it this morning, opened up MS Frontpage.
5, Inserted pic to the MS frontpage, and uploaded it...OR SO I THOUGHT.

I guess the way i have done it all is very raw but just wanted to check i was going in the right direction. Obviously im not so its back to the drawing board to start all over again.

>>> Wonder if i have bitten off more than i can chew :-) <<<<

[jellybaby]

You'll be fine :)

On your webspace, you should have :-

Index.html
yourpic.jpg

[jellybaby]

Here's a screen shot of whats what on mine :) ( I have to rename the index to index1 for the screenshot.

[themadhouse55]

Thx JB,

Its really strange, im missing something somewhere cos i uploaded the pic as a JPG amended my HMTL file, but cannot get the pic to appear at all.

Do i need to write anything on the HTML file for it to look for the jpeg ?

[jellybaby]

OK...open up frontpage, write whatever text you want, then goto the menu bar at the top. Click insert, then picture, then from file. Choose the picture you want. Save the webpage.
Upload both the picture you inserted, and the index file to your webspace.
Fingers crossed, all should be well :)

[Nikesh]

Is your picture in the same directory on your computer as the index file when you insert it?

[Mr Clean]

You could try looking at a simple html codes helper like this one http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/article.php/3478131 to get you started if you don't know alot about html.

Quick easy reference guides can be a real help when you're first starting.

[Halcyon]

Try it this way...

1. Open up your index.html file in notepad.

2. Put in the folling line in (the ones i've typed in red) and replace yourimage with your image file name. Then save it.
Then re-upload the index page.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>First Words</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
THIS IS A <B> TEST </B> !

<img src="yourimage.jpg">

</BODY>
</HTML>

[themadhouse55]

Still no luck :-(

I noticed the index file on your screen shot is 454, although mine is 99. I think it must be summit to do with this.

All i did to create the index was

OPEN WORDPAD and copied the basic info from Virginwebpage help on creating a webpage. So all my notepad says is :

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>First Words</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Here they are: my <B> first </B> words!
</BODY>
</HTML>

I then saved this as index.html

???? I confused myself now ??????? LOL

---------- Post added at 13:28 ---------- Previous post was at 12:31 ----------

WOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :-)

THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THE ASSISTANCE THIS MORNING

Finally the penny dropped, after looking at the postings i realised that the commands all come from the index file. This was my problem, i was using the basic commands and not amending them to add pics etc etc. Once i followed the instructions from all you guys i was well away. Thanks to everyone who helped

Thanks again check it out.. HAPPY DAYS :-)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/annie.price/