Shaw Webspace graphics problem.

As a courtesy, SHAW will give customers webspace when we open a cable internet account but they will not offer tech support for it. My problem is that I have the webspace set up and can access it by typing ftp://ftp.shaw.ca/USERNAME. As the page opens, it prompts me for a username and password. No problem. Once the page opens in a very grayscale page with blue lettering, all my images are listed. For a more familiar page, I click on PAGE and from the dropdown menu I select OPEN FTP SITE IN WINDOWS EXPLORER. So far so good. Now, I can view my graphic files with the usual folder selection of views: THUMBNAILS, DETAILS, LIST, etc.

Now the problem. When I select THUMBNAILS, I get a large box of an icon but can't actually see the small graphic. When directing this problem to a friend, he logged on and WAS able to see the images in THUMBNAIL view.

Second problem, I can't seem to be able to create a desktop icon from this FTP site (or is it actually an FTP site?). I right click and CREATE SHORTCUT is not an option, nor is it from the FILE dropdown menu.

Thanks for any help.

Neophyte

 

I am running IE7 on XP. Yes, http://members.shaw.ca/<username> does take me to what it labels as INDEX OF <username> but it is not editable. I can't add, delete the images on that page. At least I can do so on the FTP address approach. My only problem on the FTP site is seeing the images when thumbnail is selected.

 

the shaw website is offered a sales feature
Its of little real use simple as that
There are no shortage of free sites for hosting that actually will have some use
If its for simple postings - try a blog - blogger or wordpress blogs or perhaps a facebook page will give you what you need