Hosting: What Is Causing Broken Links And Images?

Most broken links and missing images are caused by errors in the file paths that are written within the web page's code (HTML, PHP, etc), or the use of inconsistent capital letters in your file names or paths. Internet files are case sensitive, so if you use a capital letter on a file name, it will not be visible if you refer to it without using exactly the same character cases. For this reason try to only use small case letters in file names and extensions (ie. logo.gif instead of Logo.GIF etc)

The best way to check the cause of a broken link is to right click on the link and view properties. Check that the path to the file is correct.

You should also ensure that when designing your website, that you are not saving the pages with links, and using images that look for files on your computers hard drive. For example, if you wanted to include the file logo.gif, which on your computer is located at C:/logo.gif, and your web page calls the image from this location, then when you view the image it will work, but on other computers, the image will appear broken. If you can, always try to upload images to your webspace first, then you can directly code the web page as http://www.yourdomain.com/logo.gif - a similar method can be used for web pages as well.

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