Dumb Mac/Pc question

1

When burning a cd on a PC of a website that is going to be used on a Mac, is there anything that needs to be done ?

edit: Going to be shown to someone on a Mac, not posted to the web.

I tried one a while back and when opening the site on the Mac none of the images would show.

Got to burn one now and just thought I would ask

2

Just make sure all of your paths are correct.

Relative paths would be best.

Also if you have any server-side scripting in it, it will not run.

If it is plain HTML, you should be fine. Just triple check those paths.

3

If you’re making the website a .exe, it won’t work on Mac BTW.

4

Just triple check those paths.

thats what I thought it was, but then I wasn’t sure.

/root
index.html
Folder: shared

The index.html has links in the following form:
<img src=“…/shared/blank_bar.jpg” >

I thought that this would have been fine, but I was told that it didn’t work. That they had to find a PC to open it.

hence why I am not sure why it didn’t work. Unless I am wrong in thinking that “…/shared/blank_bar.jpg” should have worked.

server-side scripting in it, it will not run
ha ha ha I’m not that silly… :slight_smile:
I have do actually have a few e-mail forms in there, but I have have it set up to pull those pages off the net, and not the cd. :smiley:

5

I think I found out the problem.

I have used names like

picture 1.jpg

on a PC this comes out as

picture%1.jpg

don’t know what it does on a Mac but I think thats the sorce of the porblems.

6

as a naming rule, never use spaces in names. It’ll just cause problems when theres no need for them.

7

if you must have a space in the names, use underscore _ instead of space.

8

Yeah_thats_what_I_do_these_days.

I think it’s a habit I picked up from programming.

But these sites were done before I learned that lesson

I don’t think that the space accounts for all the problems.

EDIT: I looked into the report thing for Dreamweaver but it doesn’t seem to report on anything other than trivial ALT= tags.