I feel like I'm a complete idiot. I have built my site full of iframes with pictures and everything referenced to the photos in a folder on my idisk. Now I want to publish to a folder and host my site on godaddy.com

My question is this:

do i have to change the name of every photo that i have referenced in my iframes? here is what i am talking about.

this is what i have currently with it hosted through mobile me

loadImage1.src = "http://web.me.com/mckinneygrip/art/co-opLIGHTING2.gif"

do I need to change to this?

loadImage1.src = "http://www.co-opinc.com/art/co-opTRUCKS2.gif"

if i do, is it necessary to have the http://www.co-opinc.com in there or is there a shorter way of doing it?

I heard that you could place the following before the folder that contains the photo: ../
like this:
loadImage1.src = "../art/co-opLIGHTING2.gif"

i have tried this, but it keeps filling in the wrong address.

like this:
file:///Users/matt/Sites/rental/CO-OP//art/co-opTRUCKS2.gif

this is what it should say to show the photo:
file:///Users/matt/Sites/rental/art/co-opTRUCKS2.gif

if this works, when I upload the folder to my server, will the ../ automatically fill in the right information instead of putting in my computer info?

thanks for any help. I am trying to build a web store for my rental company and need to get things going soon.

your site is the best on the web. I feel like i reached the end looking for answers, so I know.

Hi,

if you leave the images in the folder on your iDisk you shouldn't need to change anything. When loading the website the browser of your visitor would simply go to your iDisk to retrieve the images and load them from there. It doesn't matter where the data is stored on the web. As long as it is there it will be loaded.

Of course if you want to you can change it but you shouldn't need to.

To your other question: you don't need to put the whole http://www.co-opinc.com/art/co-opTRUCKS2.gif

You could also simply write the relative path
/art/co-opTRUCKS2.gif
if you put the pictures in the folder called "art" on your Godaddy server and they can be seen under
http://www.co-opinc.com/art/co-opTRUCKS2.gif
so in other words you could drop the http://www.co-opinc.com if front of it.

If it doesn't work on local (on your computer) it will work online (once you uploaded it to the server).

Regards,
Cédric