AboutLola Brooks Expertise I can answer questions regarding: web hosting, FTP instructions, site trouble shooting, basic
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I'm a student who is setting up a website for a designer, and using tutorials like w3schools.com to learn about html codes etc. It doesn't seem as hard as I thought.
But I have a question about image hosting. Whenever I host an image (with photobucket) and place it on the website, when I then click on that image, it takes me back to photobucket. On designer's websites this obviously doesn't happen,or their image simply displays as an image which isn't 'clickable'. How do I do this?
And the same question goes for placing a background onto the pages. Is there some personal hosting space I could use or what do I need to do?
Thank you very much Lola!
Sincerely,
Yana
Answer To make the image not clickable and simply show up on the page you will have to host the photo yourself. The easiest way is to make a folder named "images" and put all your photos in there. You then link the images through html using an image tag. i.e. if your image is located in the image folder, and named image.jpg the code would look like this:
<img src= "images/image.jpg">
This code tell the browser to go into the images folder and display the picture named image.jpg.
A common mistake that people make is pointing the image to the hard drive where the site is being built. If you do this, the site will display properly while being made on your computer but not when you upload it to a server. The same advice goes to backgrounds as well.
To test your site you will probably want to upload it to a server. I can't really recommend any free hosting because I haven't used it in a seriously long time. You can do a google search and see what comes up - try to find some with no or minimal advertising so you will be able to see what your site looks like.
Also, what are you building your site with? Are you handcoding HTML or are you using a WYSIWYG editor like dream weaver? If you are using something like dream weaver then you don't really have to test the site until you are nearly complete - and when you do the main thing you want to see is if the site functions in all browsers and any unforeseen issues (like linking pics wrong etc.)
