Links not working, after site being published???

[Eric G]

I've got a problem relating to hyperlinks.

I've built a very simple, fast loading site (intermarine.se), that hopefully
will grow with time in, FrontPage 2003, no major problem here. When I
test drive the site locally it works fine. FP doesn't report any errors
whatsoever. However, when I publish the site, the 4 main hyperlinks on the
index page linking to four other pages don't work. For the second time now.

First time this happened to me, I reconstructed the complete site from
scratch and everything, including the published site worked fine, even after
publishing. Assured, I continued adding the final touches through
the FP Page Properties, General, by filling out the Title, Page Description
and
Keywords. I re-published the site - and suddenly none of the index page's
links worked. I removed the info in the Title, Page Description and Key
words that I just added, and re-published, but the links still are dead.
I believe that I checked everything without finding any offending
code. I've Recalculated the hyperlinks, but no - the hyperlinks still
doesn't work.

When I,once again, test the site locally, everything works fine, all
hyperlink links works the way they should and the FrontPage View Reports
Summary reports that absoloutly nothing is wrong. I re-publish the site and
the same problem remains. The four links on the index page are dead, as in
very dead!

What on earth is wrong with me, or FP 2003? Am I having the thumb in the
middle of the hand, or what? What am I doing wrong? I'm sure it's me, since
it worked into the very last moment, just before I added the last finishing
touches.

I would be most gratefully for some suggestions.

Regards





Eric

Stockholm, Sweden

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Eric,

Basically, your links point back to your local computer, example:

file:///D:/Activity/Web%20development/_FrontPage_DEVELOPMENT/intermarine.se/en/yacht_management_en.htm

the same with your images:

file:///D:/Activity/Web%20development/_FrontPage_DEVELOPMENT/intermarine.se/images/corporate/IM_logo_byline.gif

and the link to your external CSS style sheet:

file:///D:/Activity/Web%20development/_FrontPage_DEVELOPMENT/intermarine.se/css/css.css


This is normally cause by not having a web / site open first when creating or editing the content of
your website.

Make sure that you always use File Menu | Open Web / Site before working on your web, and that all
content is either created in or imported into the current open FP web prior to using.
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[Eric G]

Thanks you very much Thomas and Crash Gordon for your helpful answers, it's
much appreciated and will save me many hours of work.

Can I ask a follow up question?

I always try to use relative references (in links as well as elsewhere)
instead of absolute references, i.e. "../en/filename.txt", but I've noticed
that FrontPage converts these relative paths to absolute references, i.e.
"D:/Activity/Web development/intermarine.se/en/filename.txt". Is it possible
to prevent this behavior?

I seem to remember that even Microsoft touted this practice with relative
references instead of using absolute references.

Warm greeting from Stockholm



Eric G

 

[Ronx]

FrontPage will always use absolute links if you open and edit the pages
outside of an open FrontPage web. Follow Thomas' advice and this problem
will go away.