Images FAQ
From CGWiki
You stare at the impertinent little red X on the page. It defies you. You have no idea what is causing it: Your images are NOT showing up!!!
This could be happening for any of these reasons:
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You have the image URL wrong
Symptoms: Your images load fine on the main page, but doesn't show up on your archive pages.
Diagnosis: Don't take this as a personal insult on your skill in making pages. This is because the Comic Genesis system is rather different from the norm. Archive pages are kept in a special /d folder, which means it mangles your nice <img src="images/banner.jpg"> tag and tells the browser to look for your banner at http://yoursitename.comicgenesis.com/d/images/banner.jpg . Which in turn doesn't exist.
Suggested Cure: Changing the images tag <img src="/images/banner.jpg"> . This tells the browser to go to root and search for /images/banner.jpg, which works fine. Alternatively you could put the full URL in: http://yoursitename.comicgenesis.com/images/banner.jpg
Your browser has been set to not leave referrers
Symptoms: Your images load up as blank white images or nothing at all. None of your images work... Not your banner, not your comics either.
Diagnosis: Browsers such as Mozilla Firefox can be configured to not send referrers, which trips up Comic Genesis's Anti-hotlinking system.
Suggested Cure: Set your preferences so they leave referrers for Comic Genesis sites.
Your software firewall or proxy has caused Comic Genesis's Anti-hotlinking to Block Your Image
Symptoms: Your images load up as blank white images or nothing at all. None of your images work... Not your banner, not your comics either.
Diagnosis: Basically, Comic Genesis has an anti-hotlinking system which does not allow images in the /images and /comics folders to be linked from outside the site. Some firewall programs that attempt to protect your privacy 'rip' images from the server so as not to leave a referrer. Comic Genesis detects this as hot-linking, as so blocks it, resulting in the white nosteal.gif being displayed. To test if this is really the case, pick any image you want, name it nosteal.jpg (or gif) and pop it into the /images folder. If the images all start showing up as that image, you know you have this problem.
Suggested Cure: Fix your firewall so it does things the right way ;) Since there are several firewalls out there, the instructions have been moved to a different page: I'm running a firewall and I can't read CG comics!
Note, you can only link images such as banners and avatar pictures through SiteAdmin, using the Banners Option. See the Banner and Avatar Guide for more details.
Your image in is the wrong or is a corrupted format
Symptoms: You don't have a firewall, but somehow your image refuses to display. Usually it's only a few that have this problem, and not the whole lot.
Diagnosis: There's been many reasons given for why images corrupt or are saved the the srong formats but in the right extension. Sometimes the image programs saves the images in something called ASCII format, sometimes it's something else.
Suggested Cure: Make sure your images is saved in the correct format, and check on a different program or computer if you can. Reupload the image; delete the old one beforehand.
