Some Images Not Showing Up in IE8

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There’s something odd happening with a website I’m designing for a friend. The images load correctly in Firefox, but in IE 8 only some images are displayed, while others simply show a white box and red x.

Here’s the site I’m working on:

http://www.inkzoid.com/north_bay_outfitters.html

I’m using Dreamweaver to do this and before anyone gives me any heck about this being cheap and cheating I’d like to point out that I am typing all my code manually. I only use the program because it gives me an instant preview of my code changes. I don’t drag and drop anything. :eye:

My connection settings to my FTP server are correct because the obviously you see the site when you click on the link above…so I believe we can rule the FTP connection out as being the problem.

It just doesn’t make any sense because both the images on the website (banner and logo) are JPG’s and were created in Photoshop.

Any ideas about what’s going on? Is it an IE8 issue?

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Which images are not showing properly for you?

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Hey there check it out
http://www.inkzoid.com/office.html

But in Firefox it works

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ie is very particular about capitalization…

<img src=“Images/office2.jpg” />

Should likely be:

<img src=“images/office2.jpg” />

I’m not positive it will fix it but it is better to be consistent anyway

Edit: nope that was not it… check your captitalization though… many times if it is not exactly as saved to the server it will not work in IE

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I’ll take a look at what’s uploaded to my server and check it out. Thank for letting me know about the caps issue with IE…did not know that before

I’ll post back soon and let you know

Alex

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It looks like office2.jpg (the test site) is misplaced somewhere as it doesn’t exist or is a corrupted file and it seems like the server accepts both upper and lower-case for the paths.

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It cannot be lost as it shows up just fine in firefox (yet another reason to eliminate ie from the face of the planet)

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Damn. Still not working.
I logged into my server from their website and removed office.html and office2.jpg manually, then uploaded those same files again and double checked their spelling and capitalization and it’s still not showing up.

Today I have uploaded images to a new website and they are showing in both IE and FireFox… I can’t find any differences between the images that work in IE and the ones that don’t. It’s not like the ones that don’t work have a huge filesize or anything.

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Yeah I know what you are saying - the only reason I am trying to make this IE compatible is because I want to cater to most audiences so I can make money. Otherwise I’d completely erradicate that *******ized program lol

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I’m going to register a site called http://www.fack-ie.net

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Actually, that’s the one difference I noticed with the two images that didn’t work in IE. The images were pretty hefty for header-sized images. office2.jpg is 750kb. Try getting it under at least 100kb in photoshop, reupload and see if it shows up in IE.

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Hmm, 750 KB that partly-explains why it didn’t (refused to) load on my damn sloth GPS connection, 750 KB is huge for a header. Even though my connection speed is a joke less than 200 KB is still sensible.

Also check you were using RGB and the files correctly load in Binary via FTP and come out the same size when on the Server. Sometimes but rarely file corruption can occur during transfer.