Where addresses to put for my links

[John_Smith198]

when I am designing links in dreamweaver, before I put my website on the internet, what address should I give my links. Should I used the address I have in my offliine website("C:/..."), or is there any address that I have to write? Because right now, the address if I link it to the my website, goes "C:/...." rather than "www.something."


(if it helps I am using Dreamweaver MX)

 

[Jon_]

Well, when on the internet, they can't be read from your computer. So if you want it to work, you have to link it to just your file (I.E home.html)

Hope it helps and good luck.

 

[John_Smith198]

thanks for replying.
Can you please offer a bit more information. Like exactly what address should I put on the like (since it cant be C:...) Exactly how do i do this?

 

[proudcdn]

<a href="../WebPageName.htm"></a>

Unless it is within a folder that you have uploaded. Then it would be:

<a href="../FolderName/WebPageName.htm"></a>

 

[realtechtalk]

when I am designing links in dreamweaver, before I put my website on the internet, what address should I give my links. Should I used the address I have in my offliine website("C:/..."), or is there any address that I have to write? Because right now, the address if I link it to the my website, goes "C:/...." rather than "www.something."


(if it helps I am using Dreamweaver MX)

It depends where your links are.

Eg. if you are in www.yoursite.com/somefolder/

then every link could just be the name of the file.

eg <A HREF="filename.htm">name</a>

If they are not in the same folder you'll have to use absolute links like /full/path/to/your/html.html

or relative ../yourhtml.file (if you are in somefolder and above that the file is there .. would take you one directory up and so forth).