uploading images and sound files and whatever else I did wrong

[turkeycaller]

:confused: I must be making this harder than it is. I created a one page site with MS Publisher, I know I should use another page builder to make my site more available, and I will change as soon as I figure out which program will work for me. In the meantime, I have uploaded my site http://www.deturkeycalls.com but the images are not appearing and the background sound does not come on. Don't get me wrong I am enjoying building a site again after an 8 year hiatus. It just seemed to be a lot easier back then. I used Freeservers as my host back then and I had 4 or 5 sites up and working fine. Can one of you kind folks shed some light on what I'm doing wrong before I don't have any hair left to pull out. Don't pull any punches, Let me know if I should just start all over from scratch with another site builder software and if so, what is a easy to use FREE software for what I'm trying to accomplish. Speaking of Scratch, this is one of my former sites that I created with MS Publisher98 http://www.bonsai_trees_from_scratch.8m.com just so you have a little of my former experience with site building.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

[MersauX]

As far as I can see your images should be uploaded to the folder index_files which does not exist on your server. Create a folder named index_files in your public_html folder and upload images to that folder.

[turkeycaller]

Thanks, MersauX
The images are up now, but the sound file still isn't working. I uploaded it to the index file also. Is there something else I need to do for the sound part?

Thanks

[atoms]

I can hear the cuttinghen.mp3 when I click on it.

However I can't see how you are trying to implement on your site because when I load http://www.deturkeycalls.com with Chrome I just see a green screen. It is a nice shade of green though.

Firefox tells me that there is an image problem with:
http://www.deturkeycalls.com/index_files/image315.gif

It displays a broken image icon and a border.

[turkeycaller]

The Green Screen thing might be because I created the site with MS Publisher and I was told some browsers would be able to see it. As far as image315, I don't show that I have that image on the site. bear with me now, I'm an oldtimer and I'm trying to figure this out as I go. I'm really enjoying this and thank you all for your help.

[atoms]

Right. You don't image315.gif on your site, but your page is trying to present it.
It is buried in this: (line 889 as I see it)


<img width=748
height=5252 src="index_files/image315.gif" v:shapes="_x0000_s1060 _x0000_s1042 _x0000_s1043 _x0000_s1044 _x0000_s1045 _x0000_s1031 _x0000_s1032 _x0000_s1033 _x0000_s1034 _x0000_s1035 _x0000_s1036 _x0000_s1037 _x0000_s1038 _x0000_s1039 _x0000_s1040 _x0000_s1041 _x0000_s1046 _x0000_s1047 _x0000_s1048 _x0000_s1049 _x0000_s1050 _x0000_s1051 _x0000_s1052 _x0000_s1053 _x0000_s1054 _x0000_s1055 _x0000_s1056"></span><![endif]>


Code such as that is a great reason to find another way to edit your site other than MS [anything]. There is so much extraneous code thrown in there by MS [whatever] that figuring out what may be broken can be very difficult.

I use a text editor to edit my sites. There are lots of good free ones out there. When I'm stuck using Windows, I use Notepad++.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

A text editor won't produce your code for you the way that site publishing software will. You'll have to learn some HTML (and perhaps CSS and Javascript etc etc). But you will be rewarded by gaining complete control over how your site looks and works. (uh, within the confines of the protocols and browser limitations and all that.)

[turkeycaller]

OK, ATOMS, Thanks. I'll go in and delete that 315 thing from the code. I use to do most of my codes several years ago but it looks quite a bit more complicated now. BUT, I will LEARN and I will emerge VICTORIOUS:rolleyes: