My web site will not load? What am I...

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I have a web site, the pictures show differently, the text show differently, but on my hard disk every things works fine, the text and the pictures look great in each web page, but when the web page is on the server is a different story, what am I doing wrong? The web page is www.taysolar.com
Thanks.
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When I click on your URL, I just get a list of files, and I notice that there is no 'index.html' among them. The default 'opening' page has to be called index.html

Secondly, when I open one of the pages listed, I see that from the navigation that only pages with a file name consisting of one word will open, such as PhotoVoltaic.html and Services.html. So if you upload the index file, and also change the names of the other files to just one word, you should be ok.

The same with the images; if they don't display, change the file names to one word. You'll have to make the same changes in your navigation and linking too, of course.

A note on capitalisation: Some servers treat an uppercase letter as a different one from the same lowercase letter (like in many passwords). Therefore you have to be very consistent with how you name the files. 'Index.html' could be different from 'index.html'.

I hope this will help you.
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tayo,

Another problem is the way some of your images are coded.
<img alt="groHowSolElecWrksDiagr(jan09) (157K)" src="
D:/groHowSolElecWrksDiagr(jan09).jpg" height="468" width="412" />

If you edit the source and change the D:/gro... to just the gro... that image will display. Check all your images to be sure you do not reference your C or D drives.
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I find it best to NOT includes spaces in file names on the web. If you want spaces, use underscore instead.

I have to reaffirm that you need an "index.html" file. You have a link to "Index.html" but that file doesn't exist.

Once of the reasons your links do not work is you have left out necessary double quotes.

You have:
<a href=Solar Electric.html Target="_blank">Solar Electric</a>

Where you should have:
<a href="Solar Electric.html" Target="_blank">Solar Electric</a>

or preferably:
<a href="Solar_Electric.html" Target="_blank">Solar Electric</a>

which would require renaming the Solar Electric.html to Solar_Electric.html but would save some possible future headaches.
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Underscores will work just fine, however for SEO purposes you may want to consider using dashes instead. More info at the link below to Google's webmaster blog. Pay particular attention to the paragraph that includes this phrase:

In general, we break words on punctuation, so if you use punctuation as separators, you're providing Google a useful signal for parsing your URLs. Currently, dashes in URLs are consistently treated as separators while underscores are not.


http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot. … h?q=dashes

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