I'M SO DUMB

[whizz]

Hi everyone. I need to add an image to a new product in my catalog. I can do the product info, cost and weight etc but when it comes to choosing the image this is where i run into problems. From the store admin catalog add image box I navigate to the pic on my local drive, select it and then preview and nothing no image is displayed in the catalog. All the text previews fine but no image. I'm so new at this I don't even no where to begin to look to work this out. Any help gratefully received. Thanks.

[spooks]

Hi everyone. I need to add an image to a new product in my catalog. I can do the product info, cost and weight etc but when it comes to choosing the image this is where i run into problems. From the store admin catalog add image box I navigate to the pic on my local drive, select it and then preview and nothing no image is displayed in the catalog. All the text previews fine but no image. I'm so new at this I don't even no where to begin to look to work this out. Any help gratefully received. Thanks.

 

 

There r a number of points, what type of compression r u using, jpeg is most suitable most times.

 

How big are your images, I suggust a max size of 800x600 with average compression.

 

What colur mode r the images saved with, ie cannot display cmyk, it must be rgb.

 

If u have photoshop, use its save for web function, it ensures everything is correct for the web.

 

Could u be using any protected chars? limit filenames to alphabetical, no spaces, all lower case.

[whizz]

There r a number of points, what type of compression r u using, jpeg is most suitable most times.

 

How big are your images, I suggust a max size of 800x600 with average compression.

 

What colur mode r the images saved with, ie cannot display cmyk, it must be rgb.

 

If u have photoshop, use its save for web function, it ensures everything is correct for the web.

 

Could u be using any protected chars? limit filenames to alphabetical, no spaces, all lower case.

 

Thanks for the reply. The image I wish to place in my catalog is no different from the existing images presently in the catalog in terms of size, RGB, file name etc so i don't think it is anything to do with the image. It's just the process to get them in the catalog I'm struggling with.

[burtonsnow8]

Thanks for the reply. The image I wish to place in my catalog is no different from the existing images presently in the catalog in terms of size, RGB, file name etc so i don't think it is anything to do with the image. It's just the process to get them in the catalog I'm struggling with.

 

if the image is already hosted on your website just use an FTP and over-write the file.

 

If it is not, have you tried using easy populate? Its a great contrib that helps you manage products, images, prices, model #, weight, etc.

 

 

 

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This is a list of the most popular add ons. Take a look there are some helpful add ons that you might find beneficial. Easy populate is the second one down.

 

http://addons.oscommerce.com/stats

[Guest]

Using PHPMyAdmin which can be found from your web hosting control panel look at the "products" table in your osC stores database and see if the image name is being written to the database. It should be something like this;

 

products_id 1

products_quantity 12

products_model MG200MMS

products_image mg200mms.gif

products_price 111.0000