Dreamweaver/coding help

April 23, 2008 9:26 AM

Dreamweaver filter - I have just set up a site using Dreamweaver and i am getting one piece of the code in the finished site. HELP!!! I'm a total noob at coding. Clearly.

Here is the code. The text on the finished site (in Firefox but not when I preview) is "line decor" (without the quotes). What am I missing!!!!??? FYI - in order to have this text in here, I deleted the end >


file:///I|/CAREWebsite/pdf/mm_dashed_line.gif"><img src="file:///I|/CAREWebsite/pdf/mm_dashed_line.gif" alt="line decor" width="4" height="3" border="0" /

You can see it at the website here

I'm a researcher Jim, not a designer!

posted by Sophie1 to computers & internet (7 comments total)

I assume you want the dashed-line gif to show up, and are instead getting the alternative text, "line decor"? This is because the image file file:///I|/CAREWebsite/pdf/mm_dashed_line.gif is located on the I drive of your computer or network. It needs to be uploaded to the live website folder in Dreamweaver, like the image at the top is (mm_health_photo2 copy.jpg). You then change the image source (src attribute of the img tag) to point to somewhere on the website — http://www.aidsinstitute.med.ucla.edu/Images/mm_dashed_line.gif — for instance, rather than the I drive on your PC.
posted by matthewr at 9:31 AM on April 23, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

My hero!
posted by Sophie1 at 9:44 AM on April 23, 2008

Oh, and the top line isn't showing up because the cell html is <td colspan="6" bgcolor="#99CC66" background=""Images/mm_dashed_line.gif">. You have an extra " in the background attribute.
posted by matthewr at 9:51 AM on April 23, 2008

Not what you asked but I can't resist, sorry! It's not a good idea to underline non-links such as the headings (e.g. Importance of the CFAR within the UCLA AIDS Institute) - it's far better to increase the font size or make it a contrasting (readable) colour.
posted by ceri richard at 9:51 AM on April 23, 2008

Indeed, I tried to click on them. I'm embarrassed!
posted by InsanePenguin at 9:56 AM on April 23, 2008

Oops. Thanks so much for the tips!!! I'll take out the underlines though I'll be making a lot more links to the individual labs websites in the coming days if anyone out there is a virology geek.
posted by Sophie1 at 10:01 AM on April 23, 2008

if you dont want to code too much manually, I think there's a setting under properties to make urls either relative or absolute. I believe "relative" will give you paths like, [your folder]/image.gif, so as long as you match the folder structure on your local to the server, you're all good.

This is what Dreamweaver is really good at, even for experienced developers- it's great at keeping a relatively simple site organized both locally and remotely.
posted by drjimmy11 at 11:06 AM on April 23, 2008