Writing code is truly like learning a new language. And from personal experience, the best way to learn a new language (other than practice, of course) is to seek out guidance from those more knowledgeable. Luckily for me, my computer-genius older brother happened to be home this past weekend and I managed to guilt him into helping me navigate the gibberish of code. Surprisingly, I knew a little bit more than had originally given myself credit for. It was the equivalent of Spanglish – basic English with the few words or phrases that I knew tossed in.
One of the greater problems I faced was trying to get the computer to recognize where my photos were coming from. Initially, it was linking from my desktop, which creates some obvious problems because not everyone will be using my desktop to view my website. We corrected this by creating a new folder just for my website entitled “Lindsey’s Website” with a specific folder within called “images.” This created another issue because of the formatting. The names of all my images and folders had punctuation or spaces in the titles that definitely confused my computer. To resolve this issue, we renamed everything, and voila! That’s what fixed it.
I also learned through this process, with the help of my brother, that eventually when you get it right, you don’t need the long list of folders within folders that your images are in. All we needed was the direct folder it was in, called “images.”
<img src=”images\LindseyTestlogo.png” alt=”LindseyTestLogo”>
You might notice another addition made to this code: alt=”LindseyTestLogo”. When we experienced all these problems with my images not showing up, my brother taught me this neat little trick that places descriptive words of what the image is supposed to be where the broken link is.
Though I am far from being an expert in coding or computers, and my website isn’t exactly where I want it to be yet, I am extremely proud that I managed to get this far. Bottom line: ask for help when you need it and don’t use spaces or punctuation to label things.
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