[john lowther]

Hi,

My website; http://www.keswickbowlsnews.com/ I have uploaded my website and the links to the pages are not working, suggestions please...

I am using frontpage 2003, when I preview in Browser everything works fine???


John

[WendyM]

Which links are not working? I clicked a couple at random and they seemed fine.

[dudeking]

all working for me...

[Tact]

O_o the links work for you guys???

they dont work at all for me. and i know why!

most all of the images and the links lead to parts on your computer.

file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/HP_Administrator/My%


<a href="officers.htm">Officers</a>
<a href="honours_board.htm">Honours Board</a>


i don't have an HP. so they are trying to direct to the directories in wihch you made the website. your going to have to upload everything else with your site, (images and all) and make sure they're in the same directory as the site if you want to have simple links like the ones you have above.

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by Tact

O_o the links work for you guys???

Yep, they work for me too. The only reference I see to "file://" in this index.html file is in a "base" tag that is outside the page body.

Peace...

[WendyM]

Originally Posted by Tact

O_o the links work for you guys???

Yep, and I think I know why. I'm guessing you're using IE? And dudeking and Tom, are you guys using Firefox? I think it's totally the base element, which is being interpreted differently by IE and Firefox. Nice catch Tact. It didn't even occur to me to check in another browser.

[Tact]

ok. i have a question. i checked with FF and wow. what a diffrence. works great and looks great. but i'm left wondering, why on earth could this or would this happen? and where is IE getting the idea that this is from someone else's C drive.

[ehymel]

Originally Posted by Tact

but i'm left wondering, why on earth could this or would this happen? and where is IE getting the idea that this is from someone else's C drive.

Because you told it to! The line of code that starts: [code]<base href="file:///C:/Documents...[/url] tells IE where to look. I guess firefox ignores it for whatever reason. Remove that line and your troubles should disappear.

[WendyM]

Originally Posted by ehymel

Because you told it to!

He (?) didn't tell it to, John Lowther told it to. Tact is just working through it.

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by ehymel

Because you told it to! The line of code that starts: [code]<base href="file:///C:/Documents...[/url] tells IE where to look. I guess firefox ignores it for whatever reason. Remove that line and your troubles should disappear.

I wonder why Firefox ignores it since it IS part of the HTML 4.01 spec. Hmmmmm....

Opera 9.2 respects the "base" tag like IE 7 (at least) apparently does.

EDIT: Yes, Wendy, I was using Firefox.

Peace...

[WendyM]

I'm guessing because I don't really feel like figuring it out (and might not be able to even if I DID want to), but I think it has something to do with that xml piece, in combination with <link rel="File-List" href="index_files/filelist.xml">. Guessing a little further, I doubt John Lowther wrote that. I think it's something FrontPage dropped in (boy, I do NOT miss FrontPage adding random lines of code for me) and Firefox is using that to get the file locations. IE is using the base element. I might be waaaaay off base (ha!) with that, but it's my current operating theory, such as it is.

[ehymel]

Is that really from Front Page? It reminds me why I never messed with it to begin with... I could never stand how messy the code looked! I thought it came from MS Word (or some other MS product) that was generated by the "Save as HTML" option. Messy and hard to read code either way.

[ehymel]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

I wonder why Firefox ignores it since it IS part of the HTML 4.01 spec. Hmmmmm....

Perhaps because his <base href> tag incorrectly points to a file instead of a path?? Just my guess.

[WendyM]

The OP said FrontPage 2003 and sadly, I can believe it. It really is a shame FrontPage uses so much extraneous code. It brings back not so fond memories of when I converted my sites and had to go through and take out SO many lines of code. Sigh. Good times.

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by WendyM

The OP said FrontPage 2003 and sadly, I can believe it. It really is a shame FrontPage uses so much extraneous code. It brings back not so fond memories of when I converted my sites and had to go through and take out SO many lines of code. Sigh. Good times.

I'm surprised FrontPage would identify itself as "MS Office" in the html tag:

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

That makes me think he's using MS Word or something but FrontPage could put that in as well. Who knows... I sure don't.

Originally Posted by ehymel

Perhaps because his <base href> tag incorrectly points to a file instead of a path?? Just my guess.

I guess. If that's the case, I wonder why Opera supports it. It would be interesting to see if Firefox support the "base" tag if it pointed to a "valid" URI.

Peace...