internet images and links

[leslie]

why don't some of the link images display on a page. just get a red square with a plus sign in the middle.

[mse1]

Hi, This is for one of two reasons really. Either the picture that should appear on the page isn't available anymore, because either it has been deleted or moved, or the page has an incorrect pointer to where the picture is. This is quite common. If you right click at the place where the picture is supposed to be, and select properties, it will tell you where the page is looking for the picture. Now sometimes it will say it is looking in, for example C:/My Documents/My pictures/pic1.jpg . This is where the picture would have been stored on the pc of the person that created the page. But of course when you upload the site to the internet, the pointer is no longer valid, as the web server will not have access to the person's hdd to get the picture. Sometimes also people point to pictures on other people's sites, and if that other site goes down, then the picture will no longer be available. Some understanding of html (the language used to write web pages) is useful in understanding what causes this annoying problem. Hope this explanation helps. Cheers, Mark :-)

[mse1]

Just to add, if you ARE doing your own site, then change the reference of the image source to just the filename of the pic e.g. then upload the files so that there are no folders on the site, or to tidy things up you could have and then upload a folder called "images" onto your site, with all your images in. Also pointing to pictures on other sites is bad. Not only should you ask permission first, but you are also then relying on that other site to always be available, so that the images on your site remain available. All this of course is only applicable to you if you are creating a site. Anyway hope this info is useful, in understanding the answer to your question. Cheers, Mark

[mse1]

Oops LOL it tried to disply my image tags. Should have realised that. haha. Well the first one should be img src="pic1.jpg surrounded by <...> and the second one should be img src="images/pic1.jpg" surrounded by <...>