AT LAST! shamptonian, you're a hero!
Dave On Jun 17, 3:54 am, shamptonian <[email protected]> wrote: > After seeing how this problem has come up repeatedly, I thought I'd > post what I consider is good, effective way to get around the issue > and solve your headaches. If you are hosting your images on your own > server, it appears that when you submit your template file, the google > servers are searching so quickly that they FAIL before they find the > image files that are listed in the XML file, and you end up with an > error message similar to this: > > http://www.yourwebsite.com/theme/header_center.jpg:File not found. > > Here is a simple, good way to work around this: > > > Go tohttp://code.google.com/hosting/ > > click "Create a new project" > > go to the downloads tab in your new project, > > click new download, > > browse for the file you want to upload, > > upload all your image file and repeat until all your images are uploaded > > <!-- once you've upload all your images... AND BEFORE YOU UPLOAD THE > XML TEMPLATE-->> change all the file paths in the XML template, which should > read something akin to: > > http://yourproject.googlecode.com/files/header_center.jpg > <!--right click on one of your images and 'copy link location' to get > the right file path--> > > Once all your files are there, go back to the skin submission page > <!--http://www.google.com/ig/skin_submit--> > > and try submitting your theme again! > <!-- yourtheme.googlecode.com/files/theme_template.xml --> > > It should work now :) > Best of luck! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Themes API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-themes-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
