Help on hyperlinks

[Don Schmidt]

Hi folks,

I'm running Windows 98 SE and using Microsoft Publisher 2000 to create my
web site.

I've got a mystery! I keep loosing the links I create. On a page I call "The
Map Room" I display three maps. Under each map I have the statement,
"Download this Map." and create a hyperlink to a folder on the remote
terminal, i.e.,

http://www.pacifier.com/~dschmidt/OSIA Vancouver USA/Downloads/Italy.pdf

Seems to work for a web site visit or two and then the link is broken. ???
The path is still there but it no longer works.
Is it the spaces in the path that's doing me in?

If you want to view the site its at: http://www.pacifier.com/~dschmidt/OSIA
Vancouver USA/
I notice that when I click on my shortcut icon on the Desktop the spaces are
filled in with %20 Could this be the problem? Groan...... I've got about 70
links.... to change? All of the Il Messaggio newsletters go through the
folder,
OSIA Vancouver USA/Il Messaggio\ i.e., 2001 07.pdf for July 2001 issue.


Thanks.

Don

 

[David Bartosik - MS MVP]

Looking at your page4.html, the map room, I see the first download link is
embedded in the image. I can right-click the image and download the file
image10.gif and clearly see the download text is part of the image. Don't
have hyperlinked text in an image.
Now you can have "hotspots", an area of an image that has a link, but that
needs to be an existing image. not an image that Publisher creates from
layered objects. Publisher can be inconsistent in this regard. In fact you
probably saved the page once and uploaded it and saw the embedded link
worked then later saved and uploaded it again and didn't realize that
Publisher didn't get the embedded link that time. A lost link as you'd call
it.
Place the download text below and off the image, then hyperlink it to your
file. Like you did on the third map at the bottom. ( the second one is also
embedded in the image, file image12.gif)

As far as the "%20" - URL's DO NOT support embedded spaces. The browser
inserts %20 in place of the embedded space. The recommended practice is to
use an underscore whenever a space is wanted ie osia_vancouver_usa

The other recommended practice being to use all lower case letters, for two
reasons, one it's easier to remember and type links without knowing when to
use an upper case, and two, Unix, which most web servers are running, is
case sensitive, which is why we have reason number one.

 

[Don Schmidt]

David,

Keeping in theme of my lodge's "site", mille grazie.

The lessons worked and operations are back to normal. I'll take some time in
the near future to make better the paths by removing the spaces and
converting the uppercases. I'm possessed with a "make better" motto and
seeing that there are near ~80 such paths, it'll be for a day when ol dad's
chores are at a low point.

Don

 

[David Bartosik - MS MVP]

Point 2...one nice feature in version 2000 is that your pages do not have
to

all be the same length. You can move your navigation bar at the bottom of
your page up to the last of the material on the page, and the result is a
smaller web page with no space.

and it's back with version 2003.


btw, good job Mr. F.
)