FTP Problems

I'm trying to upload my files for a test run on www.tripod.com. I have never
done this before and I ran into a bunch of problems. For one, it would not
upload my buttons, it said they were illegal. Then I did a report and it has a
bunch of problems. One of then said "Non spacer IMG with valid ALT [section
508 1194.22(a);--Failed--No alt defined for image"

So I got serious problems, does dreamweaver help with correcting them. I need
help....

"ShowtelPromotions" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I'm trying to upload my files for a test run on www.tripod.com. I have
never
done this before and I ran into a bunch of problems. For one, it would
not
upload my buttons, it said they were illegal.

Who, what said they were illegal?

Then I did a report and it has a
bunch of problems. One of then said "Non spacer IMG with valid ALT
[section
508 1194.22(a);--Failed--No alt defined for image"

Which report? all images should have an alt. You do this via the Property
inspector.
If it is a spacer gif you would use an empty alt tag: ""

If this is not what you mean, please give more detail.

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I did a site>reports on mX, and got the problems with the image alts. When I
uploaded my buttons a window pop up and said it was illegal, but I think I
fixed that, I found out the the names i was using for the buttons where not
right. I was using Caps, and spaces. I changed them to lowercase and _'s and
they uploaded fine.

But I don't know what to so with the site report I got. it tells the specific
line of the problem but I don't know what to do to correct them. What info
whould you need from me so you could possibly fiquire out the problem.....

Can you give us the url to the page - that would help.

If you really want to test how valid your page is, put it through the html
validator at www.w3.org.

From the sounds of things, the DW report is telling you that you have "alt"
tags missing for your images for accessibility reasons.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#alternate-text

You need to highlight all your images, that includes any shim gifs you have,
and make sure you have the something in the alt box in the property
inspector. For any shim gifs, you can just insert "" (that's double
quotes ie: empty).
Just use descriptive text for the images - this also helps with the search
engines :-)


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"ShowtelPromotions" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I did a site>reports on mX, and got the problems with the image alts.
When I
uploaded my buttons a window pop up and said it was illegal, but I think I
fixed that, I found out the the names i was using for the buttons where
not
right. I was using Caps, and spaces. I changed them to lowercase and _'s
and
they uploaded fine.

But I don't know what to so with the site report I got. it tells the
specific
line of the problem but I don't know what to do to correct them. What
info
whould you need from me so you could possibly fiquire out the problem.....

Don't know if this helps, but...

Isn't Tripod a free hosting place? If so don't use DW to upload your images. I
have an old site on blueyonder.co.uk which is free and I couldn't even get Dw
to connect to the server! I had to, in the end, use SmartFTP and upload the
files manually - this is easy as all your images will be in the "image" folder
which uploads as a whole and the upload your html files to combine the images
together into the page.

After using SmartFTP for transfer the site worked fine - no probs at all.

Hope that helps.

ShowtelPromotions wrote:

I did a site>reports on mX, and got the problems with the image alts. When I
uploaded my buttons a window pop up and said it was illegal, but I think I
fixed that, I found out the the names i was using for the buttons where not
right. I was using Caps, and spaces. I changed them to lowercase and _'s and
they uploaded fine.

But I don't know what to so with the site report I got. it tells the specific
line of the problem but I don't know what to do to correct them. What info
whould you need from me so you could possibly fiquire out the problem.....

Using a free host like tripod might cause issues since I think their
intention is to add content (banners, etc) to your site. Therefore, they
need to make sure that the site will work OK (else, their banners won't
show). To that end, they likely use a regular html validation (like
http://validator.w3.org/), but I wouldn't be surprised if they also have
some own rules your pages need to obey. Bottom line: free hosting is
rarely good.

To have a chance to help you, we will need to see the report and the
page itself.

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Nadia, whats an alt tage for? What do I use it for? If I have an image like a header image what do I put for the alt tag?
Please forgive me but this is what happens when you teach yourself....

How do I give you the url of the page? The files uploaded but nothing comes up when I go to www.azarello.tripod.com.
How do I let you see my site or root folder?

ShowtelPromotions wrote:

How do I give you the url of the page? The files uploaded but nothing comes up when I go to www.azarello.tripod.com.

Then I assume you have done something wrong. Contact the tripob support....

How do I let you see my site or root folder?

By posting the correct URL after you've found it out.


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From the W3.org site:

Specifying alternate text <alt> assists users without graphic display
terminals, users whose browsers don't support forms, visually impaired
users, those who use speech synthesizers, those who have configured their
graphical user agents not to display images, etc.

Put something descriptive in the alt box. For the header image, you could
possibly put the Company name for example.
It also helps people who are sight impaired to realise what the graphic
is.... does that make sense? :-)

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"ShowtelPromotions" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Nadia, whats an alt tage for? What do I use it for? If I have an image
like a header image what do I put for the alt tag?
Please forgive me but this is what happens when you teach yourself....