Hi, I am new to using freeway Express and have built my site with little problem, everything looking good when I previewed it in Safari but when I published it a whole load of the photos which I had used on the site do not appear in my web pages. there is a indicator showing they are expected but nothing else. When I have looked at the resources file they are not there. I have used them on other pages and they appear there OK. I have found a way round it by converting them to tiffs and they then appear Ok.
Can you post a link to the page, so we can see the code? Also, did you use Freeway to upload the site, or another application like Fetch or Transmit? If the latter, you may have not uploaded the images. Freeway takes a very liberal approach to file naming, and it manages everything in your site for you in one stroke. This means that if you made changes to those images or the site structure, and Freeway decided for whatever reason to change the file paths (including the file names) then uploading the HTML page alone would guarantee this sort of result. Uploading the entire site (especially the Resources folder and all its children) would be critical.
Walter
On Mar 28, 2015, at 8:36 AM, David email@hidden wrote:
Hi, I am new to using freeway Express and have built my site with little problem, everything looking good when I previewed it in Safari but when I published it a whole load of the photos which I had used on the site do not appear in my web pages. there is a indicator showing they are expected but nothing else. When I have looked at the resources file they are not there. I have used them on other pages and they appear there OK. I have found a way round it by converting them to tiffs and they then appear Ok.
meant to say I’d converted them to gif’s not tiffs
Gif should only be used for images with areas of flat colour like logos, text etc.
Jpeg is the preferred file type for continuous tone images but in any case the actual file type should have no relation to whether the images are uploaded or not.
As Walter suggests - unless you are using FW’s inbuilt FTP to upload - you are better to upload the contents of the whole Site and Resources folders rather than trying to 2nd guess what files/paths FW has actually changed.
But for a better, more specific analysis you should share a link to the uploaded site so that we can see the underlying code and what images are called and where they are supposed to be.
It is known for Server/Browser caches to affect image display and would be worth you trying to visit the site using a browser (or PC) that you may not normally use.
I dont think looking at the page will help as I said I have worked round the problem by posting the images as gif’s so the paths will go to them.
Is it that if I use the same image on different pages and in different folders the software will only load the image in one resource folder?
I tried a test page in a separate folder and put on to it one image that was on another page (that page is in a separate folder) and one that I had not used before. I then saved the page and clicked publish; then when I looked at the resources folder for that test folder the only image there was the one I had not used before.
I think you may want to work through building a site and uploading it through Freeway. You’re missing out on the basic benefit of using the application all the way through. Trying to do things a page or image at a time, rather than treating the entire site as a single object that you upload to your server, will lead you to long-term issues.
Walter
On Mar 29, 2015, at 6:21 AM, David email@hidden wrote:
Thanks for the replies.
I dont think looking at the page will help as I said I have worked round the problem by posting the images as gif’s so the paths will go to them.
Is it that if I use the same image on different pages and in different folders the software will only load the image in one resource folder?
I tried a test page in a separate folder and put on to it one image that was on another page (that page is in a separate folder) and one that I had not used before. I then saved the page and clicked publish; then when I looked at the resources folder for that test folder the only image there was the one I had not used before.