making images/css display in dreamweaver

this is driving me nuts. how do i make the design view show me the stupid
images as images instead of broken images and read a style sheet?

i'm using an absolute url for the images like
http://www.mydomain.com/images/blah.jpg and an absolute url for the stylesheet
http://www.mydomain.com/style/blah.css.

the paths are correct, the images are viewable when i put the url in ie, and
the page looks correct when i view it in ie, firefox, and every other browser
under the sun.

tia.

Won't work.

DW cannot use any file that is not in your local site, and linked from your
local site.

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"Paradise FH" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

this is driving me nuts. how do i make the design view show me the stupid
images as images instead of broken images and read a style sheet?

i'm using an absolute url for the images like
http://www.mydomain.com/images/blah.jpg and an absolute url for the
stylesheet
http://www.mydomain.com/style/blah.css.

the paths are correct, the images are viewable when i put the url in ie,
and
the page looks correct when i view it in ie, firefox, and every other
browser
under the sun.

tia.

DW design view won't show absolute URLs like that. Is there a good reason
why you're doing that and not using document relative links which is more
foolproof and allows DW to adjust the links should you move files around or
change names from within Dreamweaver?

MD



Paradise FH wrote:

this is driving me nuts. how do i make the design view show me the
stupid images as images instead of broken images and read a style
sheet?

i'm using an absolute url for the images like
http://www.mydomain.com/images/blah.jpg and an absolute url for the
stylesheet http://www.mydomain.com/style/blah.css.

the paths are correct, the images are viewable when i put the url in
ie, and the page looks correct when i view it in ie, firefox, and
every other browser under the sun.

tia.

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
DW design view won't show absolute URLs like that. Is there a good reason
<BR>why you're doing that and not using document relative links which is more
<BR>foolproof and allows DW to adjust the links should you move files around or
<BR>change names from within Dreamweaver?<BR>

the links will never change in my company's case. once you publish the file it
will always be in the same location. there is no way to change it.

it's a stupid system but that's how they do it.

Huh? You can code the page to use document relative links, no?

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"Paradise FH" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
DW design view won't show absolute URLs like that. Is there a good reason
BR>why you're doing that and not using document relative links which is
more
BR>foolproof and allows DW to adjust the links should you move files
around or
BR>change names from within Dreamweaver?<BR

the links will never change in my company's case. once you publish the
file it
will always be in the same location. there is no way to change it.

it's a stupid system but that's how they do it.

Even more of a reason why document relative links will work fine. You know
the site's file structure, it won't change, therefore why not link it up as
document relative? Unless the problem is you don't want to download
everything to your local computer, in which case I think you just need to
live with not seeing everything in Design View and will have to F12 to see
the page.

MD



Paradise FH wrote:

the links will never change in my company's case. once you publish
the file it will always be in the same location. there is no way to
change it.

it's a stupid system but that's how they do it.