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DickBlum
(I searched through the forums but could not find the answer on thi
specific question). I took over maintainance of a FrontPage 200
designed website which has 1800 hyperlinks. Being relatively new t
FrontPage and web design, I have maintained the website fairly well.
Periodically, I have needed to make a CD-ROM-based web and haven't ha
any problems until recently when a bunch of the hyperlinks went ba
(i.e. they appeared to be absolute instead of relative).
I use Frontpage 2002.
I read up on absolute vs relative hyperlinks in Microsoft's assistanc
center but it is not apparent to me that the website contains absolut
addresses nor how it is occurring.
For example: each page that I maintain has a bunch of hyperlinks in
menu at the bottom of each page. Recently, I modified the hyperlink
on the home page and thus copied/pasted (ctrl-c; ctrl-v) the revise
hyperlinked text as a group on the bottom of each successive page.
Now when I go look at the hyperlinks on the other pages, they appear t
still be relative addresses but are not the same exact format as th
home page was. However, when I publish the website to my hard-driv
(say drive C:/) and then burn a CD-ROM from that C: drive to the E
drive, only the home page hyperlinks work. A majority of the rest o
the hyperlinks on the following pages had become absolute and I don'
know why. It wasn't apparent that they were absolute when I wa
editing the website.
I realize that sometimes one has to analyze the hyperlinks after on
publishes to a hard-drive to recheck and correct, but what I am reall
asking is...====> I don't know WHY they became absolute in the firs
place; thus increasing the requirement to make adjustments/maintenanc
after I publish to a hard-drive and then burn a CD-ROM.<=====
Additional info. There are also links to graphic files on the page
that go bad, too. Just to check out the ones that went wrong on th
CD, I went back to the actual website and right clicked on a graphi
and went to Picture Properties>General tab>parameterss and then looke
at the path. The path shown was the full path, not relative. I the
changed it to a relative path and then exited. I then went back in an
again the full path was still shown. Thus, it doesn't seem to matte
whether I put in a relative or full path, the actual website alway
depicts the full path to the graphic file.
This morning, I redid another CD-ROM and "recalculated hyperlinks" an
then meticulously made sure that the file names pointed not to my har
drive, but to one of the root folders to try to make relativ
addresses. I went through and verified that all hyperlinks looked goo
before I burned the CD-ROM. When the CD-ROM was played back, th
webpage had broken links. Some of them were properly pointing to th
drive that was playing the CD, but other links were either pointin
towards the c:// drive where the files were originally transferred t
upon "publishing" from the actual web server. This is ver
frustrating
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DickBlu
specific question). I took over maintainance of a FrontPage 200
designed website which has 1800 hyperlinks. Being relatively new t
FrontPage and web design, I have maintained the website fairly well.
Periodically, I have needed to make a CD-ROM-based web and haven't ha
any problems until recently when a bunch of the hyperlinks went ba
(i.e. they appeared to be absolute instead of relative).
I use Frontpage 2002.
I read up on absolute vs relative hyperlinks in Microsoft's assistanc
center but it is not apparent to me that the website contains absolut
addresses nor how it is occurring.
For example: each page that I maintain has a bunch of hyperlinks in
menu at the bottom of each page. Recently, I modified the hyperlink
on the home page and thus copied/pasted (ctrl-c; ctrl-v) the revise
hyperlinked text as a group on the bottom of each successive page.
Now when I go look at the hyperlinks on the other pages, they appear t
still be relative addresses but are not the same exact format as th
home page was. However, when I publish the website to my hard-driv
(say drive C:/) and then burn a CD-ROM from that C: drive to the E
drive, only the home page hyperlinks work. A majority of the rest o
the hyperlinks on the following pages had become absolute and I don'
know why. It wasn't apparent that they were absolute when I wa
editing the website.
I realize that sometimes one has to analyze the hyperlinks after on
publishes to a hard-drive to recheck and correct, but what I am reall
asking is...====> I don't know WHY they became absolute in the firs
place; thus increasing the requirement to make adjustments/maintenanc
after I publish to a hard-drive and then burn a CD-ROM.<=====
Additional info. There are also links to graphic files on the page
that go bad, too. Just to check out the ones that went wrong on th
CD, I went back to the actual website and right clicked on a graphi
and went to Picture Properties>General tab>parameterss and then looke
at the path. The path shown was the full path, not relative. I the
changed it to a relative path and then exited. I then went back in an
again the full path was still shown. Thus, it doesn't seem to matte
whether I put in a relative or full path, the actual website alway
depicts the full path to the graphic file.
This morning, I redid another CD-ROM and "recalculated hyperlinks" an
then meticulously made sure that the file names pointed not to my har
drive, but to one of the root folders to try to make relativ
addresses. I went through and verified that all hyperlinks looked goo
before I burned the CD-ROM. When the CD-ROM was played back, th
webpage had broken links. Some of them were properly pointing to th
drive that was playing the CD, but other links were either pointin
towards the c:// drive where the files were originally transferred t
upon "publishing" from the actual web server. This is ver
frustrating
-
DickBlu