Image (traced background) not showing

I tossed together a *****very***** simple, single page using MX04. It's
just a picture of a Maui beach (that I took 1/1/04) and a few bars of text
off to the right. I sent the link to my wife to check on her monitor
because it was very simple but appealing at the same time. Guess what?

All she can see is the BG color of the page and the text off to the right.
The BG image does not show. Clearly it has to be there because no matter
how many times I refresh my browser the image shows. It is at
http://www.4quiche.com/Maui.html

Both of us are using XP Pro and both using MSIE 6.028

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:38:05 -0700, "SanDiegoPC" <me (AT) you (DOT) com> wrote:

All she can see is the BG color of the page and the text off to the right.
The BG image does not show. Clearly it has to be there because no matter
how many times I refresh my browser the image shows. It is at
http://www.4quiche.com/Maui.html

You have applied the image as a "tracing image". Tracing images are a
design time tool used as a guide to help you lay out a page. They do
show up in the page when its displayed in a browser.


Gary

Yeah......what Gary said. Plus I think what you really want to do is use it
as a BACKGROUND image. And since you probably don't want it repeating, you
should check into using CSS.

MD


SanDiegoPC wrote:

I tossed together a *****very***** simple, single page using MX04.
It's just a picture of a Maui beach (that I took 1/1/04) and a few
bars of text off to the right. I sent the link to my wife to check
on her monitor because it was very simple but appealing at the same
time. Guess what?

All she can see is the BG color of the page and the text off to the
right. The BG image does not show. Clearly it has to be there
because no matter how many times I refresh my browser the image
shows. It is at http://www.4quiche.com/Maui.html

Both of us are using XP Pro and both using MSIE 6.028

All she can see is the BG color of the page and the text off to the right.
The BG image does not show. Clearly it has to be there because no matter
how many times I refresh my browser the image shows. It is at
http://www.4quiche.com/Maui.html

In the body you have your background image saved as an Adobe Illustrator
file (ai) That's not supported on the web.

background-image:url(Logos/SDPC.ai)

You need to export it as a jpg or gif.

Also remove - background-image: url();

in the body, td, th style your background image points to a file on your
HD. url(file:///C|/testfolder/images/P1030055.JPG);

Re-link this image with the corrcet path.


body {
background-image: url();
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
background-image:url(Logos/SDPC.ai)
}
body,td,th {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
color: #FF0000;
background-image: url(file:///C|/testfolder/images/P1030055.JPG);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left top;
background-color: #959DAA;
}

Osgood wrote:


Actually you have it a bit messed up.

The second body background-image style, body,td,th will overide the
first body background style. So you might as well delete the two in the
'body' style

I'm not sure if you want the same background image to also appear in the
td and tr ?

At the moment you are telling it to appear not only as the page
background but also the table cell background and the table row background.

body {
background-image: url();
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
background-image:url(Logos/SDPC.ai)
}

body,td,th {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
color: #FF0000;
background-image: url(file:///C|/testfolder/images/P1030055.JPG);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left top;
background-color: #959DAA;
}

Osgood wrote:

At the moment you are telling it to appear not only as the page
background but also the table cell background and the table row background.

lol. It gets even more confusing. As you have no tables on that page
there is really no need to use td or th. (I think I said table row
before when I should have said table header.)

The only css styles you need on that page are these:



body{
margin 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
color: #FF0000;
background-image: url(file:///C|/testfolder/images/P1030055.JPG);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left top;
background-color: #959DAA;
}


Obvioulsy change the link to the background image

Thanks all for the replies.

Why though, does the image show on my browser just as intended? No, I'm not
talking LOCAL, but on theWeb. Remember, I uploaded the file to share with
my wife.
I can refresh the page all I want on my machine and it shows *with* the
image.

Wierd!



"Mad Dog" <md (AT) mdp (DOT) com> wrote

Yeah......what Gary said. Plus I think what you really want to do is use
it
as a BACKGROUND image. And since you probably don't want it repeating, you
should check into using CSS.

MD


SanDiegoPC wrote:
I tossed together a *****very***** simple, single page using MX04.
It's just a picture of a Maui beach (that I took 1/1/04) and a few
bars of text off to the right. I sent the link to my wife to check
on her monitor because it was very simple but appealing at the same
time. Guess what?

All she can see is the BG color of the page and the text off to the
right. The BG image does not show. Clearly it has to be there
because no matter how many times I refresh my browser the image
shows. It is at http://www.4quiche.com/Maui.html

Both of us are using XP Pro and both using MSIE 6.028

Funny too, that DWMX put table code in there because I never did have a
table in the page.

Wierd still!


"Osgood" <notavailable (AT) atthisaddress (DOT) com> wrote

Osgood wrote:

At the moment you are telling it to appear not only as the page
background but also the table cell background and the table row
background.

lol. It gets even more confusing. As you have no tables on that page
there is really no need to use td or th. (I think I said table row
before when I should have said table header.)

The only css styles you need on that page are these:



body{
margin 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
color: #FF0000;
background-image: url(file:///C|/testfolder/images/P1030055.JPG);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left top;
background-color: #959DAA;
}


Obvioulsy change the link to the background image

Look at Osgood's post above where he quoted your CSS stylesheet. Your
background is referencing a local file on your computer, so of course you'll
see it on that computer but no one else's!

background-image: url(file:///C|/testfolder/images/P1030055.JPG);

SanDiegoPC wrote:

Thanks all for the replies.

Why though, does the image show on my browser just as intended? No,
I'm not talking LOCAL, but on theWeb. Remember, I uploaded the file
to share with my wife.
I can refresh the page all I want on my machine and it shows *with*
the image.

Wierd!



"Mad Dog" <md (AT) mdp (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:cbtpcb$le$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Yeah......what Gary said. Plus I think what you really want to do is
use it as a BACKGROUND image. And since you probably don't want it
repeating, you should check into using CSS.

MD


SanDiegoPC wrote:
I tossed together a *****very***** simple, single page using MX04.
It's just a picture of a Maui beach (that I took 1/1/04) and a few
bars of text off to the right. I sent the link to my wife to check
on her monitor because it was very simple but appealing at the same
time. Guess what?

All she can see is the BG color of the page and the text off to the
right. The BG image does not show. Clearly it has to be there
because no matter how many times I refresh my browser the image
shows. It is at http://www.4quiche.com/Maui.html

Both of us are using XP Pro and both using MSIE 6.028

some things at random that may or may not have been covered:

ignore the tracing image.
It is only visible in dreamweaver's Design View. It is not part of the page
and won't be seen on the final upload page. It's use as old fashioned
Tracing Paper. You slide a tracing image under the design view, and use it
as a guide to build the real page on top of it.

any file reference that starts with file:/// is pointing to YOUR hard drive,
and will not be seen on the uploaded page by anyone except you. Because
hopefully no one but you can look at files on your hard drive.
To fix this- First- have you defined a site in dreamweaver??
Have you skipped the "this file is outside of your site" nag warning when
making links or placing images?


In the styles, you specified this as a background for one of the layers:
Logos/SDPC.ai
I'm guessing .ai is an Adobe Illustrator document?
Don't use it on the web, it won't work. Convert it to a JPEG or GIF format,
then use that.

Thanks all for the replies.

Why though, does the image show on my browser just as intended? No, I'm not
talking LOCAL, but on theWeb. Remember, I uploaded the file to share with
my wife.
I can refresh the page all I want on my machine and it shows *with* the
image.

Wierd!