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Sunnie
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Thumbnails don't work online - 5/30/2002 22:02:26
I had this e-commerce site up & running fine for over a year, and then the client wanted to freshen it up, so I made changes last month (just some new colors & added 2 new pages...Italian Icons & Bonboniere). I just discovered that the thumbnails of the products on the older pages are not working.Does anyone know why this happened? Is there an easy solution to restore the larger jpgs. when clicking on the thumbnail? They work on my end of FP and I have the pictures in a file like before (large & small), and there is no message on the Reports Page of FP saying there is anything wrong. Can someone check it out from your browser? www.giftsofsilver.com[url][/url] Try the Saints page first. Thank you !
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swoosh
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RE: Thumbnails don't work online - 5/30/2002 22:31:06
Some of them work and some don't. The reason the ones don't work are because you have 2 periods preceding the file extension (..jpg)instead of (.jpg) when referencing the larger image.
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swoosh
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RE: Thumbnails don't work online - 5/30/2002 22:35:39
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Some of them work and some don't. The reason the ones don't work are because you have 2 periods preceding the file extension (..jpg)instead of (.jpg) when referencing the larger image.
There is one that has the correct extension (.jpg) that doesn't work which I believe is because you have a period in the location path.
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Sunnie
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RE: Thumbnails don't work online - 5/30/2002 23:28:19
I'm not sure that does the trick. I went back into the program in the hTML mode, and removed the extra periods on the href's of first 3 jpgs.and those thumbnails now wouldn't work on my Preview mode!....that's the way it was written for the last year and they worked then, nothing has changed in the source code...so now I am even more confused.
Thanks anyway for trying. Any other suggestions, anyone?
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swoosh
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RE: Thumbnails don't work online - 5/30/2002 23:41:56
I stand corrected. Your ..jpg is because of the abbreviation in your filenames (ST.) I'm sure someone here will have some insight.
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bobby
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RE: Thumbnails don't work online - 5/31/2002 10:22:35
I'm getting a file not found error.
Have you confirmed the file names of the full size .jpg's? Makeing sure they match the name listed in the hyperlink?
I only ask because the file names are different from _small to full size...
ie: thumbnail = 34-1082.8x4Sts._small.jpg
full size = 34-108(2.8x4)Sts..jpg
This might be the way you intended to do it, but when I do a thumbnail I usually use the same file name with a _small or _s or _2 at the end...
Another thing you might try is dropping the "(" & ")" & extra "." from the file names... sometimes characters like (, &, and #, etc. in graphic file names can cause trouble...
Other than that I'm not sure.
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Sunnie
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RE: Thumbnails don't work online - 5/31/2002 21:42:32
Thanks Bobby- for the advice...I will try changing one set of jpgs.as you suggested, as soon as I can, then get back to the forum with the results... if this is the case, I have my work cut out for me...<boo-hoo> I am starting to really hate not being as proficient in html as I should because I got carried away with the "supposed ease" of FP...<Yikes, this is bugging me.Sorry, I'm venting>....
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RE: Thumbnails don't work online - 6/1/2002 4:13:39
Sunnie, just keep up with the Frontpage, the site looks great! It may seem like a lot of work to change the names and the links, but you should try it without Frontpage. Its a headache for certain... Now, while I won't force you to, you should try to put together a name system that follows the old 8.3 (only eight characters in front and 3 after the period), no spaces or punctuation other than the _ (underscore). Now you might see the trick, if you didn't use FP you would have to go in and manually change all of those links. FP does that for you. Make sure all of the pictures are in the images folder, recalculate the web, and republish.
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I went back into the program in the hTML mode, and removed the extra periods on the href's of first 3 jpgs.
make sure you do this in folder view, not HTML.
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RE: Thumbnails don't work online - 6/2/2002 18:45:03
Yeah, I agree, the site looks great, just a bit of tweaking.
Sometimes it pays to know when to cut and run, and stop trying to figure out why it didn't work. The effort-reward ratio is way out of whack in trying to analyze why the thumbnails don't work. Just do them over and move on. Many things go awry when I'm working on a project that doesn't always explain itself. If after trying to fix it I can't figure it out, I just do it over. This is one of those times. It's too easy to make the thumbnails with FP to agonize over what happened.
Some might disagree, pointing out correctly that many things can be learned by figuring out why something doesn't work, but not in this case.
Good luck!
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Sunnie
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RE: Thumbnails don't work online - 6/2/2002 23:03:06
AAARRRGGGHHHH! Thought you'd have an easier solution for me!!! LOL! Looks like I'm going to lose money on this ditty.
Thanks Cay & Tar....
I'll work on it when I get back from vacation and let you know what/how I did.
Sunnie
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RE: Thumbnails don't work online - 6/11/2002 17:14:16
Hi Sunnie,
I noticed that there are semicolons in some of your references to your images. Are you using Front Page as your HTML editor? Or are you using something else? Usually while I'm in FrontPage if I need to make changes to the HTML I use the View HTML tab. If I am creating a new html tag or script that is lengthy then I first do this in Notepad and then cut & paste it into the html section of FP. I have seen FP or Word convert spaces and special characters to other characters which messes up your html. I am certainly not an expert in this field - not by a long shot - but it did happen to me years ago when I used html and used Word as my editor. I experienced much the same as you are now.
For example in your Virgin Mary icons page there is a reference to
<a href="images/23-104(2.8X4)J&M.jpg". Your thumbnail refers to src="images/23-1042.8X4JM_small.jpg".
If you get rid of the extra characters you should be okay. But that will be a lot of work. Using underscores rather than parantheses I found was better also.
Good Luck
Linda
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Charles W Davis
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RE: Thumbnails don't work online - 6/22/2002 19:21:25
Sunnie,
I haven't had the problem for a while, but the way I solved it was to delete the thumbnail and the large image. Then open the backup image in PhotoShop, select the image, copy and then in FrontPage, paste the image, click on the image and click on the Automatic Thumbnail icon. This automatically keeps the links in correct order.
Enjoy! It's your endeavor!
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