Hello again,

 

I really hope someone can help me please.

 

The link from the code below works fine online when I click the "about" link , but does not work when I try to use Dreamweaver to preview the page on the local machine (Firefox or IE).

 

<li class="about_selected"><a href="../about/" title="About ADS" accesskey="2">About Us</a></li>

 

I understand that this is a relative link and that using ../ move a level up.

 

The site set-up goes something like this:

 

about folder------¦

¦ ¦

¦ index.html

¦

contact folder--¦

¦ ¦

¦ index.html

¦

index.html

 

I hope that makes sense.

The web address is: http://www.adsgroup.com/

 

Danny

Edited February 19, 201016 yr by Sam G
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Locally, the ../ may be causing you to leave the folder your site is in. This doesn't happen on a server as it is limited to htdocs.

For example, if your site is located at:

 

/Users/YourName/Sites/MySite

or,

My Documents/Sites/MySite

 

if you're viewing a page locally which is within the MySite folder (no sub-directory), the ../ actually takes you out of MySite and into Sites.

Thanks Andy,

 

I get it now, so how does a Dreamweaver user test the links when the links are used that way?

There could also be a problem because you haven't stated a filename here:-

<li class="about_selected"><a href="../about/" title="About ADS" accesskey="2">About Us</a></li>

 

/about/ means a server will look for a file called index inside a folder/directory called about, but I don't think your computer or Dreamweaver will look for an index file. I should always put a filename after the folder/directory name like:-

<li class="about_selected"><a href="../about/index.html" title="About ADS" accesskey="2">About Us</a></li>

Edited February 19, 201016 yr by Sam G
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Thanks Andy,

 

I get it now, so how does a Dreamweaver user test the links when the links are used that way?

 

Either use the .php extension and have a variable containing your site url (or local url), or don't use relative linking