Links don't work [was: Hi Everyone, I need a little help]

[cherri62]

I just received my book and have been slowly proceding through the pages. When I attempted to create the page with the links to all 3 pages, the links will not work. An error message pops up saying its unable to find file. Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

[esem]

Seems like you have an invalid link, have it pointing to something not there.

Example?

[Blake Tallos]

<a href="#"></a>

[kabo0m]

I just received my book and have been slowly proceding through the pages. When I attempted to create the page with the links to all 3 pages, the links will not work. An error message pops up saying its unable to find file. Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

It depends on what your links are linking to. I have seen some people with links that say file:///C:/

Of course that won't work. It must be like http://

as in

<a href="http://mysite.com/mydir/index.html">My Site!!!</a>

Make sure you do put in a name where I have put My Site!!! as if you put nothing there .. then there won't be anything for your visitors to click on.

Also if you have the path wrong it won't work of course. But some people like those who had to move to a new domain might have their links like <a href=/mydir/index.html> instead of the beginning part starting with http:// but might have accidentally put in the path wrong. Doesn't mean they are noobs. Everyone makes mistakes.

Also I noticed with my ISP the site I have doesn't allow php (sucks .. I have to host on my fiance's home computer because my ISP won't give me that??) so I have noticed some of my things don't work because of what file type isn't allowed.

I know I am not the best at explaining but I thought since not a lot of replies are here that maybe this might help a little.

I mean it is hard without knowing the code you are trying to use so we could even see for ourselves what it says.

[htmlguy]

You're simply pointing to a null reference.

<a href="htmlguy://heythere.zack"> won't go anywhere because it isn't there. It's a good sign though, because it shows that the links are working, you just don't have them going anywhere.