standard page design -inserting images with Ultradev

[NeilBelgium]

dear all, although I can create semi-decent data related pages, I still am having problems with web design!
I think maybe I'm treating the whole exercise as a data-driven site and must be doing something wrong. For example, I've defined the site as asp 2.0, VB compliant, but maybe for standard non-dynamic pages this is unnecessary?
I've downloaded our website (created by someone else years ago!) onto DW Ultradev, and I am trying to amend some pages. the main problem is with inserting images:

I have created a table (5x2) and am intending to put fiove photos of people in the left column.
There is a link to the image source (assets/image) and all images are gif. or jpeg. However, they don't seem to be recognized.
If I try to open them in Fireworks, I'm getting an "unknown file format" error.

I know this is meant to be simple stuff, but what is the standard way to approach?

any ideas most welcome, many thanks, neil

 

[schase]

Hi Neil,

On several of my websites - if I have any database activity at all within it - I define it as asp 2.0. Not every page has database activity - but a few do. The pages without are saved as standard HTML.

I have not used Fireworks, but I have run into a similiar situation with invalid .gif or .jpg formats. The only thing I could guess is whatever program origionally made the picture saved it into a .gif or .jpg format that other image editing tools can not see.

What I would suggest is try to open it up in a different imaging program, and save it as something different. maybe a gif to a jpg or vice versa - then open it up in Fireworks and change as needed. If you do not have a different imaging program, you can use demos that are available. Or if the pictures are already on the web, goto that url where the picture resides - right click over it, select save. But make sure you save it into an entirely new folder - keeps it nice and neat - and you know where you left off.

Hope this helps

Stuart

 

[NeilBelgium]

many thanks!