Jellby, thanks for your reply I only had it in that order because I was not trying to get that page to function as the cover. It was a test to see if the cover image would display in ADE or Ibooks which it did not.
Pholy, I went through that document and made sure I had everything that they discuss in that article. I had most of it. However, it mentions that the id name is very important. So, maybe that has standards that ereaders look for to find a cover image. However, that did not fix my problem.
Atlast, I found my solution. So, I made all the changes everyone in here suggested and still nothing. So, I open the document in ADE and I go up to Reading and Item info when I am on the titlepage.xhtml. FINALLY, an answer it tells me image is too large. I unzip my epub and find that the cover image is over 700Kb. I fix that and now my image works in ADE now I need to test it in Ibooks.
However, I do still have an issue with the cover. I have put the titlepage.xhtml in the top of my spine and I have set it with linear="no". I already have a cover built into my epub so I dont want this cover to come up as well. However, both covers are still there. This is happening in ADE the only place I have tested it so far.
Here is my spine
Code:
<spine toc="ncx">
<itemref idref="cover" linear="no" />
<itemref idref="tableofcontents" />
<itemref idref="acknowledgements" />
<itemref idref="Chapter1.xhtml" />
<itemref idref="Chapter2.xhtml" />
<itemref idref="Chapter3.xhtml" />
<itemref idref="Chapter4.xhtml" />
<itemref idref="Chapter5.xhtml" />
<itemref idref="Chapter6.xhtml" />
<itemref idref="index" />
</spine>