What Can I Do About Missing Images and Those Darn Little Red ‘x’s?
For those who create and send out newsletters in HTML format, nothing is more frustrating that seeing a missing image. It fails to appear in the finished web page when viewed by yourself and your subscribers. This is an issue with a fairly straight-forward resolution.
Programs like FrontPage or Dreamweaver are used to create HTML documents for the purpose of sending a newsletter and they can condense an image link. This is done with the assumption that the images in question reside on the current web server.
Sometimes, image links in HTML that are written with programs like this appear as:
<img src="../images/someimage.gif">
Notice that the URL in this image assumes by the use of two periods ".." that the image is on the CURRENT server. This causes problems when an email is sent because the code in that email is not able to find the specified image on the internet.
In order to ensure that this doesn’t create problems, it’s necessary for that image to be stored in a finite location. The image can be uploaded to your website, or up to our secure image area in your 1ShoppingCart.com - powered system. Either way, the direct link for this image MUST be shown in full as in the following example:
<img src="http://www.myurl.com/images/any_image.gif">
The URL in between the brackets in this example could be any URL where the image itself is stored, including our own secure image area as indicated below!
1ShoppingCart.com and our Private Label Network offer a 5 Mb of upload space for you to store your images securely. Find it by clicking on the Cart Setup >> Secure Image Area link on the main menu of your account. You’ll find a browse button on this page that allows you to find an image on your hard drive and upload it to our secure servers. You are then supplied with a link that you can use to display the image properly. |
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