I am trying to get a website going but my pictures don't appear I have been told my picture path is wrong?

Question

I am using microsoft word if it makes any difference

Answer 1

First off check your file names to be in low case. This can be a problem but unlikely. The most likely cause is the Word made paths to images and links relative to your computer's file system (that is like c:\documents and settings blah blah blah). Open your files in Explorer, go to View and then View HTML code. If it is the case simply correct the code manually by deleting the path leaving only file names or make a relative path by using "/" symbol. You should have something like this: "picture.jpg" or "/picture.jpg" or "../picture.jpg"
Hope it helps :)

Answer 2

Microsoft word is not the ideal website creation tool. You'd be better off with Microsoft front page. That said, the issue is most likely due to Word's logical location of the images.

When on your computer, your images are found in something like C:mydocuments or wherever you have them stored on your hard drive. The important thing to note is that the image location is on your hard drive.

When you upload or publish your website from Word, and when you try to pull your website up, the image location is still trying to find the image on your hard drive, but since the Internet cannot access your hard drive, the images don't appear and you get that 'wrong picture path' error.

What you need to do is, in word, either hard code the links for your images to be the correct path for your web server, or publish the site, then open the website in notepad and hard code the links.

Again, if you used an application like Front page or Dreamweaver, you'd not have this issue.

Hope this helped??

Answer 3

You need to look at the file path and make sure that the photos are in the same file as the main index file. If their uploaded onto a server but not in the same folder as the index file then it will not recognize the correct file path. It would show up as a broken link or an X inside a box.

Answer 4

Alright open the picture with paintshop than save it as a jpeg image or bip. I use Jpeg alot and Jpg. Its probably the format most pictures are bip,Jpeg, and Jpg. It could also the the size you may have to resize it in paintshop. Hope this works for you.