inserting an image

[David Emerling]

I'm fairly new at Frontpage.

How do you insert an image when the location of that image is already on
your FTP site?

It seems Frontpage gives you the option of inserting an image off your
harddrive or selecting one that is already on the net. But what if the image
is already on your server?

Thanks!

David Emerling
Memphis, TN

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

you could just select a local copy with the same name and when you publish
it'll overwrite the destination picture.

then things will be in sync between your local web and your remote web.

HTH

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Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

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a fantastic convenience for site owners.
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[David Emerling]

you could just select a local copy with the same name and when you publish
it'll overwrite the destination picture.

then things will be in sync between your local web and your remote web.

HTH

Are sure about that?

Because if you select a local copy of the image, Frontpage puts the PATH
into the HTML coding. That does no good!

The problem is that the image can't be found because it doesn't know the
PATH to the image on your ftp site.

I found a way to make it work, but it always have to manually place the path
in the coding. Not a big deal - but I was surprised I cannot simply drop the
image from the ftp site, onto Frontpage, and have it properly record the
path. It doesn't.

David Emerling
Memphis, TN

 

[Ronx]

The best way to use FrontPage is to have a local copy of the website on your
hard disc, and edit that local copy. This means that a copy of every file
on your FTP site is on your hard disc, within that local web site.

Open FrontPage, then File->Open web and open the local website. Edit what
has to be edited. Add images from the LOCAL web site, not from the FTP
site. When the page is saved, the path from page to image will be a
relative path, which will work wherever the web is published to.

Note that any new images must be imported into the local website before
being inserted onto a page - not doing this *will* create file references to
your hard drive.

When editing is complete, publish the local website to your FTP site - all
paths will be correct, and the two sites will be synchronised.

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

I only use FrontPage to publish via the http:// method, whilst working in an
open web or site and yes, I'm totally sure it works. ;-)

perhaps because you're dragging and dropping stuff from an ftp server into
the FrontPage GUI you're getting unexpected results, but in FrontPage's
defense you're using it in an unexpected way. ;-)

--
Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

ContentSeed: great tool for web masters,
a fantastic convenience for site owners.
http://contentseed.com/
--

 

[David Emerling]

The best way to use FrontPage is to have a local copy of the website on
your hard disc, and edit that local copy. This means that a copy of every
file on your FTP site is on your hard disc, within that local web site.

Open FrontPage, then File->Open web and open the local website. Edit what
has to be edited. Add images from the LOCAL web site, not from the FTP
site. When the page is saved, the path from page to image will be a
relative path, which will work wherever the web is published to.

This is true even when the referenced images are in subfolders on the ftp
site?

David Emerling
Memphis, TN

 

[Ronx]

Yes.

Relative links will work anywhere, provided the directory structure is the
same on both sites (which it will be if you keep the sites synchronised).

By keeping local and FTP sites synchronised you also have a fairly good
backup system running (not perfect, but fairly good).