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Uploading Images And Files To Your Website And Using FTP - Resell Right Course BASIC Part 7The easiest way of uploading images and files or products to your website is to use an FTP program. An FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program lets you upload pages quickly and easily to your website, and though it might seem difficult at first, it really is very simple when you know what you are doing. There are many FTP programs that you can use for uploading images and files, and the 3 most popular (used by millions of users) are: STEP BY STEP VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS! An excellent resource with FREE step by step video instructions teaching you to use each of the above programs to upload images and files to your website can be found at the link below: Remember 2 Important Points: 1) Images and other programs should be uploaded as BINARY files. (you can determine through simple selection of options on your ftp program what format you want to upload a particular file or folder as. Images, video, and .zip files etc. should always be uploaded as binary files) For example if you have your thank you page (let's say it is an html file called "thank-you.html" in a folder called "downloads" then the path to your page will be: http://www.yourwebsite.com/downloads/thank-you.html Troubleshooting Images: If any images are not showing on your sales page after you have uploaded it, and provided you have uploaded the images as binary files (usually you will upload the entire folder called "images") then you may have to check your sales page to ensure that the links are pointing to the images correctly. Most of the time, the html in your sales page pointing to an image will show like this (without the full path). img src="images/IMAGENAME.jpg" This is usually adequate and points to the images folder on your website. However if this doesn't seem to work you can try the full address to point to your images. You will need to change the above with the full path and it should look like this after you have made the changes: img src="http://www.YOURWEBSITE.com/images/IMAGENAME.jpg" Also ensure that the extension of the image matches the extenstion in your url. For example the above image in the example is called IMAGENAME.jpg whereas the actual image may be a .gif file and your url should have IMAGENAME.gif not IMAGENAME.jpg. Another important point is to ensure that you have your imagename EXACTLY as it appears for the image. Capitals where captitals should be, and lowercase where lowercase should be. So an image called Footer.jpg should not be spelt footer.jpg or FOOTER.jpg but exactly as it is spelt on the image name. This holds true for ANY files, including files your customers will download e.g. zip files. Another common mistake is using underscore where a hyphen should be used in an image or file name and vice versa when uploading images and files. Quite often files will have hyphens or underscores in their name. e.g. product-image1.jpg or download-product-1.zip (hyphen in names) OR product_image1.jpg or download_product_1.zip (underscore in names) Make sure you have the correct usage in your html that matches with the image or file. Important note: Most of the time, you will NEVER have a problem with this, as most of the pages will already be correctly configured. You will more than likely run into this problem if you are adding your own graphics to a page, or adding bonus products to download. If the links don't work then try the above remedies, as these are the most common mistakes people make.
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