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Author Re: Images with full http:// path instead of site relative path.
Josie1one

2006-02-24, 10:16 pm

Do you have a real URL for people to have a look at the code? Otherwise I
think it's just guesswork.
Jo

"drewangell" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dtnd0u$k8d$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> New with DW8 I first noticed that when you insert an image using a full
> URL
> path (ie: http://www.domain.com/images/name.jpg") instead of just a
> relative
> path (ie: images/name.jpg) they would actually show up in DW design view.
> This
> is great, however, I've come to notice that this is VERY picky and I can't
> figure out what makes it show the iimage and what's wrong when it won't.
>
> I do lots of eBay templates and that's why I have to use full URL paths
> for
> the images. It makes it more difficult to design in DW when I can't
> actually
> see the images.
>
> I've got one template setup with a CSS that loads a repeating bg image and
> then I also have lots of other images in the template as well. The only
> images
> that don't show up are images that are dynamically inserted and that's
> expected.
>
> I have another template that I've setup in just the same manner, using CSS
> to
> insert a repeating BG image. On this one, though, the background image
> isn't
> showing up and therefore I get a blank white background in DW design view.
>
> I have yet another page that uses images stored in the same exact folder
> on my
> web server and I link to them in the same manner:
> http://www.domain.com/images/1.jpg, http://www.domain.com/images/2.jpg.
> In DW,
> though, only 1 of these shows up in design view!
>
> Any information on what's going on with this would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks!
>



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