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[Carter-Orange]

I decided to have a go at making my own website earlier, so here's the link.

sincerely-yours.bravehost.com

It's my first attempt at making a website so please excuse it, lol. I've put links to here on there and also AC. Can't quite figure out how to add my pictures, but I'm sure I'll get them on there one day!

[Julie]

Awesome! It's great to see new fanfic sites popping up! Love AC, but it's also nice to have your stories posted somewhere else, if for no other reason than to back them up - thinking of what happened to Jen today.

Pictures... I can help! This is exactly the problem I had when I first made my site. I did some poking around, and it looks like you made your site on Word? (That's what I use too.)

There's a couple of options for you to get the pictures to work.

Option 1:
When you add a picture to a website in Word the regular way, by going to Insert Image, From Files, all of that, it automatically creates a folder for all the pictures for that webpage. For example, your index page has three pictures. If you look in the files on your computer, you should have a folder called index_files in the same place where you saved the index.html file. Inside that folder should be the three pictures you put on that page, but renamed image002, image003, etc.

To get them to show up on your site, you need to create a subfolder in Bravehost called Index_files (be sure to capitalize the I). Then you need to upload those image files into that folder. Once you do that, they should show up on your site. I've never used Bravehost, so I don't know the specifics for how to make a subfolder.


Option 2:
This is what I do because I hate all the subfolders LOL.

First, upload all the original versions of the pictures you want to use to Bravehost - don't worry about making subfolders or uploading the image002 files; the originals are fine. Once you do that, each picture will have its own URL - sincerely-yours.bravehost.com/picture.jpg

Second, open the page you want to add pictures to in Word. Go to View -> HTML Source. Scroll past the gibberish until you see where it says </head> Anywhere below that is the body of your page, where all of your text and pictures go. Anywhere in there, you can paste and edit this code:

<img src="full URL to your picture goes here">

Once you've got that in there, go back to regular Word and click Refresh on the box that pops up. The picture should be there, as long as you put in the right URL. Then you can center it or cut/paste to move it where you want it on the page, just like you would with text.


Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any problems. Like I said, this was my biggest frustration when I first started my site on Word and couldn't get the pictures to work! LOL

[Carter-Orange]

Thank you so much for the help Julie, I'll have a go tomorrow as my head is done in tonight, lol.

Yeah, I made the site mainly as a back-up and just to see whether I could do it. Hopefully it won't look so crap once I've fiddled about with it some more

[Julie]

No problem! Word is pretty easy to use, and you can do more with it once you start playing around; you just have to learn your way around the glitchy things Word does. It's good for making a nice, simple-looking site.

[Carter-Orange]

And my site is very simple looking, lol! I'm going to have a look at it after work and see if I can get those pictures showing and also pretty it up a bit.

[Julie]

LOL ya know, sometimes simple is better!

[Carter-Orange]

Thanks for your help Julie, I've managed to add a couple of pictures (even though I should be working, lol). Now I just have to figure out how to add headings to each page, instead of it saying unititled on every page. But I'll figure that one out later

Yeah, simple will be easy to keep up with!

[Julie]

Whoo hoo! Glad it worked!

For the page headings, if you open them each up in Word and resave them by going to Save As, there should be a Change Title button in the save box that pops up where you can change the title that will show up.

[Carter-Orange]

Thanks again Julie! I was trying to go into the file editor in Bravehost and add <TITLE>Sincerely Yours</TITLE> into the HTML but there must be something wrong with the Bravehost editor thing at the moment. So I did it the way you said and it's working

[Julie]

One thing I don't like about Word is that it adds in all this coding of its own that overwrites other stuff; that could be why it didn't work when you tried it on Bravehost. If I ever decided to do my site with a different program, I'd probably have to basically redo it from scratch because of all Word's stupid coding. Grr. But Word is still really convenient, so I can't complain too much.

[Carter-Orange]

Word is great!