How to use images in your templates Instructions on using images in Templates

How to use images in your templates

Templates are used in conjunction with all aspects of displaying your directory to end users . Each template consists of HTML code with variable words that is used in combination with each other. These variable words are enclosed by %% or !! characters. For example: %%date%%. Most of these variables words need to be present to do a certain task. These variable words are replaced by data when displayed to end users viewing your directory.

Probably the easiest way to understand how templates work is to play around with the HTML code of templates: Open the HTML templates with your web editor or copy and paste the HTML code into your web editor and start editing. Experiment with the templates and try different combinations. You'll be surprised with what you can come up. The templates gives you total control on the look and feel of your search engine and directory.

Note that when you make use of images in the HTML code of templates, you must use a URL link to indicate their locations.
For example:

<img src="someimage.gif"> will not work.
 
You have to indicate the entire URL where someimage.gif is located. For example:
    
<img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/someimage.gif">
   
The <img is an HTML tag indicating that you want to insert an image in the HTML page. The src= part indicates that you want to specify the location of the image to be inserted. Some web editors will support inserting images from a web url and some won't. If your web editor does not support this, insert the image into the HTML page like usual and, when finished, edit the the HTML source code and manually insert the URL path's to the images. Ensure that the images are on the server for the URL path's you specify.

Example: Editing the HTML source code:

Replace <img src="someimage.gif"> with
<img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/someimage.gif">