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civileng68
03-03-2006, 04:42 PM
I had a graphic designer make a logo for me. I got the logo and it's in a shockwave file. From my hard-drive it loads up and looks great. However when uploaded to the bluehost server, it doesn't load on my page.

My page just keeps showing that it's loading. It's not "x" on the image, but rather you can see the area where the logo should be and it just keeps saying loading.

Any insight?
Dave
03-03-2006, 07:47 PM
Only a guess here but did you upload it using binary mode? this is NOT the default BH FTP setting.

I would say try to upload it again making sure binary is set and try again.


Dave


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civileng68
03-03-2006, 08:43 PM
Only a guess here but did you upload it using binary mode? this is NOT the default BH FTP setting.

I would say try to upload it again making sure binary is set and try again.


Dave


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Can you tell me how to do this? I have no clue.
Dave
03-03-2006, 08:50 PM
How did you upload the file? What FTP program did you use?
civileng68
03-03-2006, 09:22 PM
How did you upload the file? What FTP program did you use?


I just went to "File Manager" and then went to my www folder and then just did "upload file".
Dave
03-03-2006, 09:27 PM
I was afraid of that. I'm not sure if its binary when you do it that way.

You might consider using an FTP program such as WS_FTP to upload it just to see if it solves the problem.

You can get a free trial copy of WS_FTP here.

http://www.ipswitch.com/_download/wsftppro.asp

Here's how to use it with your account:

http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/kb/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=69

Dave


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rando
03-03-2006, 10:27 PM
I was afraid of that. I'm not sure if its binary when you do it that way.


No, the 'binary' thing only matters on the windows end during an ftp transfer. The straight file upload doesn't even have a 'binary' setting.
Dave
03-03-2006, 10:36 PM
There you go... so since BH doesn't make uploads binary (http://www.bluehostforum.com/showpost.php?p=1029&postcount=5), then I would suggest using an FTP program to upload your file.


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rando
03-04-2006, 10:20 AM
There you go... so since BH doesn't make uploads binary (http://www.bluehostforum.com/showpost.php?p=1029&postcount=5), then I would suggest using an FTP program to upload your file.


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Again, the post you're talking about only applies to FTP. FTP was not used in this case, so the whole concept of uploading something as binary doesn't apply.
Dave
03-04-2006, 12:09 PM
civileng68, Yea so like anyway, like I said, I would try FTP anyway even though rando said that binary isn't the problem.

There may have been something else that went wrong. Try to upload it using an FTP program and lets see what happens. I have flash on my sites and it works fine. But I always use FTP to upload them.

Good luck with that. Please let us know what the result is after you get it working.


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civileng68
03-04-2006, 10:31 PM
civileng68, Yea so like anyway, like I said, I would try FTP anyway even though rando said that binary isn't the problem.

There may have been something else that went wrong. Try to upload it using an FTP program and lets see what happens. I have flash on my sites and it works fine. But I always use FTP to upload them.

Good luck with that. Please let us know what the result is after you get it working.


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Got it working! Thanks.

I dont know what it happened. I used FTP again and it was fine.