Front Page to send special graphics to bereaved parents

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,I want to use Front Page to make graphics to send to other web sites,
specifically guestbooks of bereaved parents. I want to make graphics in my
Microsoft Picture It and then transfer the material to Front Page to sign on
in the
guestbooks. I've tried and it doesn't seem to work for me.
 
Antigone50 said:
,I want to use Front Page to make graphics to send to other web sites,
specifically guestbooks of bereaved parents. I want to make graphics
in my Microsoft Picture It and then transfer the material to Front
Page to sign on in the
guestbooks. I've tried and it doesn't seem to work for me.
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What have you tried ?

I use Picture It! and post images on my site, so that is not a problem

However, I haven't used guestbook, so more info. will help me or perhaps someone who has used it
 
How do you post the pictures to your site? I want to use the HTML coding
that is in Frontpage to show the pictures in guestbooks and all I get is a
blank
with the little red X which means the hyperlink is broken. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
 
Murray - I want to use the graphics I make to build an HTML code which Front
Page can do. It just doesn't come up on the site I want it to. I get a blank
and a small box with a Red X in it, hyperlink broken I believe. Any help
you can
give would be great. Do I need to post the graphic to the Web Server to get
the graphic?
 
Antigone50 said:
How do you post the pictures to your site? I want to use the HTML
coding that is in Frontpage to show the pictures in guestbooks and
all I get is a blank
with the little red X which means the hyperlink is broken. Any
suggestions? Thanks.
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To answer the question as asked:
"How do you post the pictures to your site?"

This is what I do:
I place my pictures in a folder underneath the folder containing my website.
E.g. My web site (on hard disk) is
C:\Documents and Settings\Trevor\My Documents\My Webs\myweb\index.html
The pictures are
C:\Documents and Settings\Trevor\My Documents\My Webs\myweb\images\image1.jpg ,
C:\Documents and Settings\Trevor\My Documents\My Webs\myweb\images\image2.jpg ,
etc.

In my code I use relative links to the images such as images\image1.jpg , images\image2.jpg , etc.
E.g. a link could be <a href="images\image1.jpg">Click here to show image1 </a>
(In fact my code is a liitle more complex because I call an HTML page which contains the image)

I then publish and FP finds the unpublished images and publishes them to the web.

That is how I actually do it, but it may not be 100% correct.
I think how one *should* do it is to import the images folder into the web.
Anyway I have had no problem. Look at the code on my site if you wish.

The broken link may be (just guessing) because your link is not relative (as my example above) or it is absolute but incorrect,
e.g., trying to link to hard disk on the web.
 
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: Murray - I want to use the graphics I make to build an
HTML code which Front
: Page can do. It just doesn't come up on the site I want
it to. I get a blank
: and a small box with a Red X in it, hyperlink broken I
believe. Any help
: you can
: give would be great. Do I need to post the graphic to the
Web Server to get
: the graphic?

Yes, the graphics need to be on a web server.

You would not want to use the 'html coding' from FP to
insert the image into another site; as it may use a relative
URL which would only work if someone was in your website-
nothing out of your domain

Example:
We will say you have a website we will call
'www.mydomain.com', which has an 'images' folder (who
doesn't), and it contains a graphic we will call
'picture.jpg'.
The relative URL (to the root) is images/picture.jpg, and if
in your site the image would be from
'www.mydomain.com/images/picutre.jpg'

Lets say we visit 'www.SomeSite.com'. Using the relative URL
from your site would attempt to put the picture in, but
would be calling the image from
'www.SomeSite.com/images/picture.jpg'. This can do one of 2
things- either they don't have that image (usually) or they
do have an image there (most likely not what you want)
 
Yes, you'd have to store your image somewhere on the web and then hotlink to
it from within the Guestbook - IF the guestbook allows you to write html in
the message body. Many do not allow this.

OR

Some guestbooks/portals/forums have built-in uploading capability where
you'd just upload your image. Many have size and other file restrictions on
this as well.




| Murray - I want to use the graphics I make to build an HTML code which
Front
| Page can do. It just doesn't come up on the site I want it to. I get a
blank
| and a small box with a Red X in it, hyperlink broken I believe. Any help
| you can
| give would be great. Do I need to post the graphic to the Web Server to
get
| the graphic?
|
| "Murray" wrote:
|
| > FP is not a browser. It can only build web pages - it cannot sign on to
| > guestbooks....
| >
| > --
| > Murray
| > --------------
| > MVP FrontPage
| >
| >
| > | > > ,I want to use Front Page to make graphics to send to other web sites,
| > > specifically guestbooks of bereaved parents. I want to make graphics
in
| > > my
| > > Microsoft Picture It and then transfer the material to Front Page to
sign
| > > on
| > > in the
| > > guestbooks. I've tried and it doesn't seem to work for me.
| >
| >
| >
 
Dear Trevor: Lovely meeting you and thank you for your help. I had pulled
in some photos from "Picture It" and the first time I posted to a guestbook,
it worked and the photo showed up. The next time it didn't. I am still very
new at Front Page and am terrified of trying to publish to a web site I
really haven't
made yet. I have a website for my son, Geoff, but I don't want to publish
these
to that site since it is for him alone (he died at 18, 4 years ago). I was
just hoping to
be able to do a little work on graphics in Front Page and then sending them
to the
website guestbooks. I would like to work on the graphics and then just use
the
code to send them to the guestbooks. I hope I am making myself clear here and
that it's not confusing to you. We have a group of bereaved parents that
send
graphic pictures of their children to them on anniversary dates, birthdays and
just to wish them well.
 
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