[Coco] Gene, heads up again, I cannot access your site.

[Lothan]

From: gene heskett
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 8:46 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Gene, heads up again, I cannot access your site.

On Monday, August 22, 2011 08:41:16 AM Lothan did opine:

>> Have you tried using relative URLs instead of fully-qualified URLs?
>> Using a relative URL like <img
>> src="/gene/pix/EasterSundayCropped2004-1.jpg" /> or <a
>> href="/gene/Genes-os9-stf">...</a> lets the browser figure out the
>> fully-qualified URL based on the URL used to access the site so links
>> continue to work regardless of the mechanism used to access the site.
>
>I am not a gee whiz webmaster by any means, but after I've had some coffee
>I might try that, thanks.  Humm, should I not remove the leading slash
>though?  I do not have a mount point 'gene'.

I typically use the leading slash to anchor all the URLs to the root of the 
website, but this may be a matter of personal taste. Not using the slash 
theoretically makes it easier to move and rename folders without having to 
edit a bunch of links, but I've found it can make it more difficult for a 
human to figure out where links are really pointing if say someone moves a 
file from folder X to folder Y and forgets to update the links to X/foo and 
there's also a Y/foo or a Z/foo. There shouldn't be duplicate foos in my 
book, but I don't live in a perfect world either. I think that's why someone 
coined snafu.