Silly question about links

[Nicholaswhite]

I have a problem!:confused2

I'm on www.freewebsites.com and I can't link to any of my sites.
For example, my index.html is called http://f1motorsport.freewebsites.com/index.html

I can't link to my links page http://f1motorsport.freewebsites.com/links.html

or my GP1 site http://f1motorsport.freewebsites.com/gp/index.html

or my hall of fame site within the GP1 page that I can't access:
http://f1motorsport.freewebsites.com/gp/hof.html

Is it to do with not calling them htm instead of html? And what is the difference between the two?

Cheers,
Nicholas


PS also, I have a few pictures that I want to use in every page, do I have to put them in every directory or what?

[Dusty]

For example, my index.html is called http://f1motorsport.freewebsites.com/index.html

I can't link to my links page http://f1motorsport.freewebsites.com/links.htmlThe filename is case-sensitve. You're linking to "Link.html" when you should be linking to "link.html".
or my GP1 site http://f1motorsport.freewebsites.com/gp/index.html

or my hall of fame site within the GP1 page that I can't access:
http://f1motorsport.freewebsites.com/gp/hof.htmlSame problem, you're linking to http://f1motorsport.freewebsites.com/GP/hof.html when you should be linking to http://f1motorsport.freewebsites.com/gp/hof.html.
I have a few pictures that I want to use in every page, do I have to put them in every directory or what?No. If, for example, the image is at http://f1motorsport.freewebsites.com/images/image.gif, just link to /images/image.gif from all your pages.

[Nicholaswhite]

thanks, I'll try it:cool2:

[Nicholaswhite]

Originally posted by Nicholaswhite
Is it to do with not calling them htm instead of html? And what is the difference between the two?

Does anyone know the answer to this?:confused:

[Jan]

The primary difference between .htm and .html is simply that .html can't be represented in a DOS/16 bit operating system which uses the 8.3 file naming convention. So, .html files were renamed .htm when they were written on DOS/Windows 3.x systems.

Most servers (but not all) that can handle 4 character file extensions can be set up to treat .htm and .html files exactly the same, just as they can be set up to treat .jpg and .jpeg files the same.

[Nicholaswhite]

Thanks.:)

[deeplist]

What I do when designing my site is try to avoid using using the following situations when naming my files:

1. Capital letters (use all lower case.)
2. Capital letters in extensions. (Example ".GIF" vs ".gif")
3. Spaces in file names
4. Special characters such as the symbols: &%$#@!*()

I know you still can operate a site using special file names that contain some of the characters listed above, but it just makes it a whole lot easier (for me anyway) when you set yourself some basic rules like the ones above. You also won't have so much trouble linking your files either.

[meow]

Visit HTML Writers Guild a lot, Jan? :D
http://www.hwg.org/resources/faqs/shtmlFYIFAQ.html#htm

[Jan]

Thanks for the link meow :)

Can't say I have been there before, but it looks interesting.

I did get the above info from a site similar to that though. I thought it did a better job of explaining than I would have done ;)

[Archbob]

You should take note that www.freewebsites.com deletes your site for no good reason every once in a while. And no I did not have a freebie site. I simply had my current site www.albinotreefrog.net hosted with them. They never got my domain hosting set up either.