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E. H.

May 15 2005, 03:27 PM

I like to put some gif animation on my web site, I use dreamweaver 'cause I
don't know much html. It works if I preview in IE, but when I've sent it to
my site I can see only a square with a little x in it. The animation is not
made on my computer, I got it from the net. Can someone give me an idea of
what is wrong?
E.H.

Ohanapecosh

May 17 2005, 02:01 PM

"E. H." <[Email Removed]> wrote in message
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QUOTE

I like to put some gif animation on my web site, I use dreamweaver 'cause I
don't know much html. It works if I preview in IE, but when I've sent it
to
my site I can see only a square with a little x in it. The animation is
not
made on my computer, I got it from the net. Can someone give me an idea of
what is wrong?
E.H.

It's likely that if you look at the HTML the source call for your animation
is pointing to a location on your hard drive and looks something like:

<img src="C:programfilesmacromediamywebsitesmynewsiteani.gif">

or some such, it looks fine on your computer because your browser can find
this location and display the graphic.

You need to use what ever wizard DW has to modify paths, or open the HTML
and find the name of your graphic and change the path to what it would be
when you upload the graphic to the web server.

Perhaps: <img src="ani.gif"> if you put it in the root of your domain, or;
<img src="/images/ani.gif"> if you put it in a directory below the root.

Don't forget to upload the graphic to the web server before you do this. And
what ever you do, don't just link directly to the original site that is
hosting the animation, this is very bad.

E. H.

May 18 2005, 07:36 AM

Thank you for helping. I had the folder with animations at the root of the
site, I moved it down to www_docs where it has to be, now it is ok.
E.H.

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"E. H." <[Email Removed]> wrote in message
news:cMKhe.10137$[Email Removed]...
I like to put some gif animation on my web site, I use dreamweaver 'cause
I
don't know much html. It works if I preview in IE, but when I've sent it
to
my site I can see only a square with a little x in it. The animation is
not
made on my computer, I got it from the net. Can someone give me an idea
of
what is wrong?
E.H.

It's likely that if you look at the HTML the source call for your
animation is pointing to a location on your hard drive and looks something
like:

<img src="C:programfilesmacromediamywebsitesmynewsiteani.gif"

or some such, it looks fine on your computer because your browser can find
this location and display the graphic.

You need to use what ever wizard DW has to modify paths, or open the HTML
and find the name of your graphic and change the path to what it would be
when you upload the graphic to the web server.

Perhaps: <img src="ani.gif"> if you put it in the root of your domain, or;
<img src="/images/ani.gif"> if you put it in a directory below the root.

Don't forget to upload the graphic to the web server before you do this.
And what ever you do, don't just link directly to the original site that
is hosting the animation, this is very bad.

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