Pictures being dropped from web pages. (not loading)

[lukes customs]

First off I would like to say I'm not a web site designer. Really, I know nothing about it except what I need to get by. Which is loading pictures and adding hyper links. My entire site was designed on the Blue Host server through File Manager and the use of the HTML editor.

About a year ago when editing my site, I noticed that some of the pictures would be dropped (not loading) after the changes were made to the pages and saved. I would then have to go back and re-add the picture to its page.

Here is a link to a private page just for hosting pictures (not part of the customer pages). This page was set up about a month ago, I went to add the picture that comes up, but none of the others will load which is typical to the problems I'm having.
http://www.lukescustoms.com/page0022.htm

This still happens, but now the pictures are being dropped even without editing the page. This is becoming a huge time consuming problem. My site usually needs weekly changes due to the nature of my business, but doesn't get done anymore because of this problem. The changes should take less that 2-3 minutes, now it has turned into a hour or more to do simple changes like changing a price on a product or removing one.

The first year with Blue Host was NOT a problem, as I did a lot editing the first year. The entire last year has been a huge head ache. People constantly complain that they can't see the pictures which means my evening are consumed with fixing the pages.

Is there a solution?

[Early Out]

Never mind...

I thought I knew what was happening, but I don't, at least not yet.

[Early Out]

OK, part of the mystery solved.

Here's one of your image links:

img src="/Page22.PictureHoast/fender_bracket.JPG"

But that's not where the picture file is located. It should be:

img src="Page22_PictureHost.PictureHoast/fender_bracket.JPG"

There's no magic - if a link says, "get the image file here," then, by god, that's where the image file has be located! (The leading "/" is unnecessary, as well.)

The second problem is the HTML editor, which is inserting occasional garbage characters (the "A" with the "thing" over it). Others have reported this, and I don't know if a solution was ever found. The workaround is simple enough, however. Keep the pages on your own PC, edit them with Notepad or NoteTab Lite, and just FTP the corrected pages back to the server. I think you'll find this a whole lot easier to work with.

[lukes customs]

OK, part of the mystery solved.

Here's one of your image links:

img src="/Page22.PictureHoast/fender_bracket.JPG"

But that's not where the picture file is located. It should be:

img src="Page22_PictureHost.PictureHoast/fender_bracket.JPG"

There's no magic - if a link says, "get the image file here," then, by god, that's where the image file has be located! (The leading "/" is unnecessary, as well.)

But what is causing the change? All I did was load the pictures to the server, then added them to my web page and saved, all was good. When I went back a few weeks later they are gone, what is happening in the middle to screw it up?

The second problem is the HTML editor, which is inserting occasional garbage characters (the "A" with the "thing" over it). Others have reported this, and I don't know if a solution was ever found. The workaround is simple enough, however.

Actually I know what the "A" is. It is to indicate that there is more than one space between words or pictures. I believe that this is part of an editing tool in the HTML editor.

This also was not a problem when I first came on board with Blue Host. The first year I was here the "A"s were not a problem (Because they never showed up). I think somewhere along the way someone turned that function on or perhaps it was new software. I don't really know but things like this don't "just happen" on there own.

The first year I had ZERO issues, now I can barley keep my site up.

Keep the pages on your own PC, edit them with Notepad or NoteTab Lite, and just FTP the corrected pages back to the server. I think you'll find this a whole lot easier to work with.

Thanks, I'll look into this...

[Govindji Patel]

If that is problem than there must be something wrong on the server see if you can contact your host and let them them know the problem.