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jackn

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Can anyone help us? My co-worker and I have colaborated in developing a web site with Dreamweaver 4 using what I thought were only document-referenced links throughout. The problem is that after looking at the final product in a browser, when hovering the mouse over a link, the address of the link as displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the screen apparently displays the link as a possible absolute reference. For example, a document-referenced link to introduction.htm located in the training folder is
displayed as file:///C|/training/introduction.htm

Where do the triple slashes come from and what do they mean? Are they absolute references? I thought absolute references only had two slashes instead of three. Everything seems to work ok, even at the client site
when delivered via copy on CD. However, whenever I make a copy of the entire site, the link reference changes according to whatever drive it is copied to. For instance, if it is copied to the E drive, it may be displayed as file:///E|/training/introduction.htm

Any ideas of what is going on here? Is this liable to cause any problems like broken links or is it just a nuisance? Any recommendations or fixes? HELP!

-Jack Nonmacher
jacknonmacher@spherion.com
(713) 735-1829
 
You have to make sure all the links are in the correct folder and accessed correctly. Either relatively or absoultly.
In DW4, when you wanna add a link just click on the link icon on the Properties box... I have not failed; I merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...
 
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