LostImages

Lost images and files happen all the time on the internet and that includes iWeb sites. First thing you have to do is identify a lost image. When you get a little question mark on a site instead of the picture you expected you are dealing with a lost image. When you right-click on the lost image and select "open image in a new window" you will see the intended URL of the image in the address bar. This is where your site is looking for the image at. For instance if the URL said http://iWebFAQ.com/files/pics/MPbanner.gif then the site is looking for an image named "MPbanner.gif" in a folder named "pics" included in yet another folder named "files" of the iWebFAQ domain host.

If you Publish to .mac then your iWeb site files are Published to a folder "Sites" that is located in yet another folder named "Web" inside your iDisk.

The URL for a file located in your "Sites" folder would be:
http://web.mac.com/YourUsername/AnyFile.Extention

If you placed a folder with a file in it into your "Sites" folder the URL would be:
http://web.mac.com/Your-Username/Your-Folder-Name/Any-File.Extention

Place a folder inside THAT folder and you get this URL:
http://web.mac.com/Your-Username/Your-1st-FolderName/Your-2nd-Folder-Name/Any-File.Extention

Get the picture?

So to fix a lost image is kind of the same as fixing a broken link. You either have to place a file with the correct name and extention on your host so the URL is where your site is looking for the file at, or edit the HTML for the page to make the code function correctly. Sometimes the HTML code may have been screwed up somehow resulting in a lost image on your site. It really all depends on the situation but those are the two most common remedies. Images on sites all boil dowm to two things: Where the site is looking for an image at and where your image is located. If these two things match then you see your image on your page. If you get a lost image icon then one of those two things isn't matching up.