AOL and photos ??

Hello fellow members. I need some help with an AOL issue and since I know nothing about AOL I hope some of you could point me in the right direction.

I had made a web page a couple of years ago using some freeware and it turned out pretty good but was hard to change images on the fly so to speak so a couple of weeks ago I completely started over this time using MS Word from Office 2000.

This solved the problem of fast updates and in IE or Netscape everything's visible and works fine but we've received mail from people with AOL saying they can't see the photos.

Would those of you with AOL please look at this site:
http://home.att.net/~candacespc/TP2.htm

and let me know if it's old versions or something that is AOL wide. Second I'm wondering if you AOLer's can use your AOL connection and then launch IE to see the photos. If you can I'll just post that little work around on the web page for AOL users.

Thanks


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Griffinspc, I use Aol 6.0 and I couldn't see the pictures on your site at all. I opened Internet Explorer and tried that and still no pictures. Hope you get it figured out.



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Griffinspc-I have AOL-6.0,your pictures are fine.Tulsa,OK

Griffinspc,
I have AOL 5. I went to the page on IE and saw no pictures - also when I scrolled the page there was a lot of white flashing. I also used the AOL browser, same thing and when I tried to go back from one page to another the browser wouldn't.
Sincerely, Nancee

Hello, i have AOL 6, IE 5.5 Can excess all pictures inc, in both.

Cannot afford anything though.
Good way of getting people to view your business and they might buy something.

GEP

griffenspc.
Went to the site using aol's browser (aol6.0) no picture. Reloaded, picture appeared fine. Cleared cache, tried again. couldn't get the picture even with reloading. Cleared cache again, tried ie5.5 couldn't get picture with that either. I'm confused since it worked once. Tried opera 5.0 worked okay every time.
Hope this helps, Chuck

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griff, I have AOL 7.0 and IE 5.0, cannot see the photos, everything else is clear.I also used IE and could not bring the pictures in.

[This message has been edited by carpenturr (edited 02-28-2002).]

The pictures do appear okay for me but I am using a regular isp and ie 5.5.

I do remember when i had aol way back that i needed to use .art extensions on images insteaad of .jgp or .gif. You may want to try that.

Mark


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i'm using xp pro and plain old dial-up.

the page loads fine in opera 6 and netscape 6.2. in internet explorer 6, it takes a bit for the images to load. i should also mention that cpu usage was abnormally high during the time that i viewed the page with internet explorer (80%+ usage, with iexplore.exe as the culprit). this didn't happen with opera or netscape.

might i suggest using something other than microsoft word to build the page(s)? the amount of code that it has generated for that page is ridiculous...

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[This message has been edited by chris wolf (edited 02-28-2002).]

Wow, great responses, though it doesn't seem that there's any pattern here. One AOL'er can see them and the next can't. One verion of 6 can see them the next person with version 6 can't. Weird.

As I said earlier, I have IE 5.5, Netscape 4.76, and I forgot to mention Opera 6, and they all work just fine. I accessed them from work with IE and Netscape with no trouble. The real bummer here is the AOL search engine lists her 3rd on the 1st page of hits for, "kids TeePees" and yet they can't view them.

gep Really I didn't think of this as a sales ploy, Candace can hardly keep up with the orders now. I just can't figure it.

Anyone else with any ideas as to the cause? I can go back to my old program but then when she needs an update I spend a weekend making it just right.



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I know Im butting in.... BUT I have IE no AOL and when I went there it wanted me to download something called vrt I think anyway I didnt d/l the pictures didnt show up in the page or when I clicked on them
oh well

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Originally posted by Abby:
I know Im butting in.... BUT I have IE no AOL and when I went there it wanted me to download something called vrt I think anyway I didnt d/l the pictures didnt show up in the page or when I clicked on them
oh well

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You're not butting in. Thanks for the interest. I heard from my son that has AOL and when he tried to view it he got a message about vrt (or something similar) also. I asked him for the exact message so I could see if AOL had a forum I could check that with but he had already disconnected and disappeared.

I assume you meant that your version of IE needed vrt. is that right?


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[This message has been edited by griffinspc (edited 03-01-2002).]

Hi Griffinspc!
I just did a search on AOL Keyword re pictures in web pages and came up with this link. I don't know if there's anything in there that will help, but I thought I'd give you the link. http://members.aol.com/webstlouis/howto.html
Sincerely, Nancee

Thanks Nancee. I'll investigate it thoroughly. Chris Wolf was very kind and restructured my opening page using this technique in Notepad and e-mailed it to me but I don't know how it was done yet. This will probably teach me.

I have to say I like it better than my layout. Now for my ego that's a bruise. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/

This link might help me setup a duplicate set of pages for AOL users. Now it's back to work. Why can't AOL just go with the flow?

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