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[Sceenwritingscience]

I am having problems with displaying images on my Home page.

First, I created a 'Test' page in the Static Page section of Administration and got it to display images and texts there exactly like I wanted it to appear. But when I copied and pasted the code that makes up the 'Test' static page into my Home page via Webmaster Mode, the text copies and I can see it, but the image isn't there, only a '?' in a blue box.

This is the code I used:
<img height="130" alt="" src="{$ImagesDir}/Ronin-Screenplay-Summary.jpg" width="130" /> <o:p></o:p></div></span></span></div>

I'm guessing the problem is because Test pages are HTML but the Home page is php. Correct?

Please could you suggest how to solve this problem.

Many thanks, Melvyn P. Heyes.

[cflsystems]

Static pages are individual pages, they do not show on front page. Ifyou want to show something on front page edit welcome.tpl

[Sceenwritingscience]

I am editing the Home page content via Webmaster mode, not through the template (I don't want to change format, only content!). My problem is images that won't appear. I can get them to appear in a static page but they won't appear even if I transfer the code to the home page via Webmaster.

[robb3369]

You can take out the <o:p></o:p> code... That is pure Microsoft Word code... Visually doesn't matter, but unnecessary.

[balinor]

You can't use this in webmaster mode:

{$ImagesDir}

Need to use skin1/images or whatever the real directory is. Smarty doesn't work in smarty variables.

[cflsystems]

Beat me to the second
As balinor said - if you want to use Webmaster mode you have to use path not smarty variable. If you edit welcome.tpl or any other template file in a text editor then you can use smarty variables in there.

[Sceenwritingscience]

Thanks Padraic,

So if I write the following in the static pages:
<img src="{$ImagesDir}/ Ronin-Screenplay-Summary.jpg " alt="" width="130" height="130"/>

What do I write in the Home page if my images are in:
/home/myusername/mywebsite/htdocs/skin1/images

Appreciate your help here. M.

[balinor]

Not the whole server path, just skin1/images/yourimagename.jpg