I've had a website designed, and I'd like to change the photo on the front page. I've logged into the control panel and gone to the file management centre. I have located the file and have clicked 'edit'. It's not as easy as just copy and pasting the hosted image. There are several pages worth of special characters- %,£, arrows etc. There is no English/html. Any ideas how to change it?
2006-12-18 00:57:38 · 7 answers · asked by Crystal 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
When trying to 'edit' the photo, it just comes up with lots of special characters. However, if I click 'view source', I can see where the image name is supposed to be, as some of it is in html. Is there a way of pasting in the image name when I'm in 'view source', then saving it?
2006-12-18 01:29:16 · update #1
Try to download the HTML file instead of editing it on the web. The server might not be windows based and disrupts it...
Edit the HTML file on your machine and publish it again.
2006-12-18 01:10:07 · answer #1 · answered by Bsc.@yourService 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to your web page in a normal browser window.
Right click on the image and save the image to your hard drive.
Open the image in a graphics editing application like Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop or Gimp.
Make the changes you want to the image and resave it, making sure you retain the original filename.
Log into your control panel, and find the folder where the image is stored. If your cpanel has an upload interface, upload the image file into the folder, and click yes to any overwrite options.
If your cpanel doesn't have an upload interface, log into your ftp client (SmartFTP is my favourite) and find the folder with the original image. Again, upload your new edited version and click yes to overwrite.
2006-12-19 00:35:29 · answer #2 · answered by maryavatar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Type the name of your website into Internet explorer but replace the http:// with ftp:// and you get a login and a password field. Fill those in and you should get access and be able to delete the file and maybe replace it. Try pasting your new picture in. But really you need to use a web design program. You are just looking at the code for the picture. If the site was done with FrontPage or dreamweaver - you may need to get a copy of that to edit the page.
2006-12-18 01:26:20 · answer #3 · answered by Mike10613 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you have actually opened up the image file itself, and this is actually the data describing the photo. You will need to upload a new file to replace the existing one: and may need to upload the whole page again unless your existing photo is the same size as the old one, or else it may not look nice anymore.
2006-12-18 01:13:02 · answer #4 · answered by Jonathan W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edit the image offline on your local machine (use Photoshop, GIMP etc) - then when it's done upload it again. That way you can avoid whatever nasty sounding poor quality image editor that your web provider has issued you with...
2006-12-18 01:43:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get in touch with the people who designed you the website and ask their advice.
If they want to charge you for the advice.....tell them that the product is not suitable for the job and ask for your money back!
If no joy...come back to Answers again.
2006-12-18 01:13:37 · answer #6 · answered by Graham S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
give the file path right one
2006-12-18 23:59:49 · answer #7 · answered by sreenukvr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋