Images not working

Alicorn · Post by **Alicorn** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:50 pm

I recently obtained a new Comicgenesis site at http://htht.comicgenesis.com and have been trying to get some images up. They don't seem to work - when the URL is accessed (http://htht.comicgenesis.com/images/first_day.gif , for example) it says it's a 1x1 image when it should be 50x50. I am sure I am not misspelling any file names. I'm sure the files arrived intact. What could be the problem and how can I fix it?

Swikan · Post by **Swikan** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:19 pm

Have you run a "regular update"? This moves files from your workspace to your public folder.

Alicorn · Post by **Alicorn** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:47 pm

Yes, I ran an update and the images are still not working.

Swikan · Post by **Swikan** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:34 pm

I don't see the html for showing an image on your page source. Do you have the proper code or tag on your indextemplate file for it to show up?

I am posting the image below to check to see if it is functioning properly.

Also, please note that the first_day button won't show up until you have at least 2 comics in your archive. From the CGWiki Tagtorial

Edited to add: I can see the image here, so it is definitely uploaded properly and in the proper file.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:11 pm

Can you copy and paste your indextemplate.html code here, between "code" tags?

Aiken · Post by **Aiken** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:20 pm

Are you using front page? I have the 1x1 pixel problem whenever I use that. If so you need to define the image size in the appearance tab of the image properties.

Alicorn · Post by **Alicorn** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:16 am

I don't think the problem can be one related to the navigation buttons specifically, because when I noticed this problem I uploaded some test images in various formats and they won't show up at their supposed locations either.

Code: Select all

***advertisement***
<table>
<tr><td>
<div align="center">
Hi to Tsuki to Hoshi no Tama (Beads of the Sun and Moon and Stars) is a webcomic about a trio of magical girls defending the world from interdimensional invaders.  It will launch on March 1.

<p>
***first_day*** ***previous_day***
<p>
***todays_comics***
<br>
***first_day*** ***previous_day***
</table>

<p>
***comic_name*** is hosted on Comicgenesis, a free webhosting and site automation service for webcomics.
</html>

I don't have any comics slated to be up yet - I'm launching March 1. I just want to get everything set up so the page will look nice when it is up. My concern is not, therefore, that the nav buttons aren't showing up on the index page (of course they're not, there's nothing for them to go to), but that they won't show up at their supposed URLs (example being http://htht.comicgenesis.com/images/first_day.gif ).

Swikan · Post by **Swikan** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:44 am

Alicorn: No problem on the image being there, at least the one image (see my post above with your image.. that is using the url you gave here).

I think the 1 x 1 pixel placeholder is coming up because of the anti-hotlinking feature. (you are not allowed to show images from CG on CG sites and it sometimes looks like a different site when you pull it up in your browser).

To fully test all images, I would say to make 3 "placeholder" comics (just any images right now), named properly for them to be showing today, run a regular update, and see if the index- and dailytemplates are showing the images properly.

It looks like you are using the tags and everything correctly here, so I think your mind will be eased quite a bit by doing a test.

Oualawouzou · Post by **Oualawouzou** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:22 am

Maybe it's simply that navigation tags won't show up if there are no comics in the account, or no ***todays_comics*** on the page?

I think the 1 x 1 pixel placeholder is coming up because of the anti-hotlinking feature. (you are not allowed to show images from CG on CG sites and it sometimes looks like a different site when you pull it up in your browser).

You mean you can't show images hosted on CG on non-CG websites, of course...

Swikan · Post by **Swikan** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:42 am

***blush*** (using the BLUSH tag)

You're so right, Oualawouzou! *fires typist*