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Background picture in frame become broken links when site published

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DeadGordon

DeadGordon

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Oct 19, 2003
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Hey guys,

I have a website which uses a frame on the left for links. The frame contains to gifs which have text boxes on them which are links to other pages of my site.

My site looks fine in preview mode but once I have published it the gifs in the frame appear as broken links (you know that little icon you get when you cant see a pic on the net). However you can still click on the links.

This is not a refresh problem as I have tried Ctrl+F5 a number of times.

Please can someone help me!!

Thank you
Gordon
 
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Check the spelling of the file name. Make sure everything is the same in your HTML code and actual file name online...INCLUDING CASE. Differences in upper and lower case can cause broken links to appear.

algraff ::)
 
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Hey algraff,

Thanks for your reply but it's definately not my spelling. I have noticed that FrontPage comments out my picture as soon as I add text to it. Unfortunately I don't know much about HTML so I don't know if this is normal or not.

This is the code it generates for the frame after the text "Home" is added to the gif NavHome:

<base target=&quot;_self&quot;>
<body background=&quot;back.jpg&quot;>

<!--webbot bot=&quot;ImageMap&quot; text=&quot; (48,5) (110, 31) {Home} {Times New Roman} 12 B #ffffff CT 0 &quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;NavHome.gif&quot; u-originalsrc=&quot;NavHome.gif&quot; u-overlaysrc=&quot;_overlay/Contents.htm_txt_NavHome.gif&quot; width=&quot;144&quot; height=&quot;48&quot; --></p>


If anyone has suggestions I would really appreciate your help!

Thanks,
Gordon
 
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Just to let everyone know, I solved the problem. It was because my server didn't have the FrontPage Server Extensions installed. It turns out that a number of advanced features in FP require these extensions to be installed, including any features which add webbots to your HTML code.

Basically if you are publishing your site to an FTP address then your server doesn't have the extensions installed or you are not making use of them. You must publish to your site's HTTP address in order to use the server extensions.

Hope this helps anyone who has the same problem.

-Gordon
 
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