Hypertext links

[Latitude]

Background: I operate a web site at www.folkart.com. We sell art and crafts
from different parts of the world. In the past all our web pages were
created by me (a very non-tech type person) using the FrontPage. Because of
my non-technical background I'm certain I use only a fraction of FrontPage's
capabilities. For example I did not use styles or CSS. I FTP'd web pages to
the unix server.

Now we're trying to use more of the functionality of FrontPage 2002 and
we're looking forward to using the new version when it's released later this
summer or fall. I am attempting to learn and use CSS and we're now
'publishing' the web pages rather than using FTP.

The current problem I'm experiencing deals with hypertext links. The problem
can be best explained by viewing two web pages:

The first web page www.folkart.com/home/hex-old.htm is the original web page
we created years ago and FTP'd to the server. The hyperlinks in this 'old'
web page do NOT create a new window. This is great; we do not want a new
window.

Today I made modifications to the file and save as
www.folkart.com/home/hex.htm. Basically we're changing the format (colors
and backgrounds) and we're using CSS, and we're 'publishing' the revised web
pages rather than FTP. We did NOT indended to change any of hyperlinks. YET
for some reason the hyperlinks now spawn a new web page.

First, what is causing the changes to the hyperlinks? Between the hex-old.hm
and the hex.htm we did not change the link structure. Yet the links now
function differently.

Second, does the use of CSS have any effect on hyperlinks? One change that
we made between the hex-old.htm and hex.htm was that we added a CSS. Could a
style be set that changes the hyperlinks?

We have several thousand web pages to revise. If FrontPage is going to
change how the hyperlinks operate we may need to revisit how we make these
revisions. HELP!!

thanks, Cecil

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Cecil,

A few things...

1. FP can not manage absolute URLs, i.e.,
http://www.folkart.com/home/usa.htm only relative URLs, such as
.../home/usa.htm

2. FP can not manage URLs that are embedded in drop down menus or within
script tags.

3. Your drop down menu has a target value of "Main"

<form name="navForm" target="main">

4. Your individual hyperlink have a target value of "Main"

<a href="/hex/hexx.htm" target="main">

5. The easiest solution is to do a search and replace of [target="Main"]
with [target="_top"] without the [].

6. Also, I don't think search engine spiders follow URL contained within a
drop down menu.
--

==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================

 

[Latitude]

Hi Thomas. Thanks for helping us find the problem to the altered links. When
we added the Web Component (Included Content-page) to all the web pages, the
target=main crept into our world. Frankly we don't recall adding
target-main; it was added was by accident. However, now that you've
identified the culpret we can deal with it.

From now on we call you Mr. Magic. Anyone who can follow our web pages and
identify where we go astray has the Mr. Magic quality.
Thanks again for your support.

When's FrontPage 2003 going to be release?

Thanks, Cecil

Cecil,

A few things...

1. FP can not manage absolute URLs, i.e.,
http://www.folkart.com/home/usa.htm only relative URLs, such as
../home/usa.htm

2. FP can not manage URLs that are embedded in drop down menus or within
script tags.

3. Your drop down menu has a target value of "Main"

<form name="navForm" target="main">

4. Your individual hyperlink have a target value of "Main"

<a href="/hex/hexx.htm" target="main">

5. The easiest solution is to do a search and replace of [target="Main"]
with [target="_top"] without the [].

6. Also, I don't think search engine spiders follow URL contained within a
drop down menu.
--

==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================

Background: I operate a web site at www.folkart.com. We sell art and crafts
from different parts of the world. In the past all our web pages were
created by me (a very non-tech type person) using the FrontPage.

Because

of
my non-technical background I'm certain I use only a fraction of FrontPage's
capabilities. For example I did not use styles or CSS. I FTP'd web pages to
the unix server.

Now we're trying to use more of the functionality of FrontPage 2002 and
we're looking forward to using the new version when it's released later this
summer or fall. I am attempting to learn and use CSS and we're now
'publishing' the web pages rather than using FTP.

The current problem I'm experiencing deals with hypertext links. The problem
can be best explained by viewing two web pages:

The first web page www.folkart.com/home/hex-old.htm is the original web page
we created years ago and FTP'd to the server. The hyperlinks in this 'old'
web page do NOT create a new window. This is great; we do not want a new
window.

Today I made modifications to the file and save as
www.folkart.com/home/hex.htm. Basically we're changing the format (colors
and backgrounds) and we're using CSS, and we're 'publishing' the revised web
pages rather than FTP. We did NOT indended to change any of hyperlinks. YET
for some reason the hyperlinks now spawn a new web page.

First, what is causing the changes to the hyperlinks? Between the hex-old.hm
and the hex.htm we did not change the link structure. Yet the links now
function differently.

Second, does the use of CSS have any effect on hyperlinks? One change that
we made between the hex-old.htm and hex.htm was that we added a CSS.

Could

a
style be set that changes the hyperlinks?

We have several thousand web pages to revise. If FrontPage is going to
change how the hyperlinks operate we may need to revisit how we make these
revisions. HELP!!

thanks, Cecil

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Your are welcome! However there are others here, that are better at finding
problems in someone's HTML code then me. This was easy because I was looking
for "Main".

--

==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================

Hi Thomas. Thanks for helping us find the problem to the altered links. When
we added the Web Component (Included Content-page) to all the web pages, the
target=main crept into our world. Frankly we don't recall adding
target-main; it was added was by accident. However, now that you've
identified the culpret we can deal with it.

From now on we call you Mr. Magic. Anyone who can follow our web pages and
identify where we go astray has the Mr. Magic quality.
Thanks again for your support.

When's FrontPage 2003 going to be release?

Thanks, Cecil

Cecil,

A few things...

1. FP can not manage absolute URLs, i.e.,
http://www.folkart.com/home/usa.htm only relative URLs, such as
../home/usa.htm

2. FP can not manage URLs that are embedded in drop down menus or within
script tags.

3. Your drop down menu has a target value of "Main"

<form name="navForm" target="main">

4. Your individual hyperlink have a target value of "Main"

<a href="/hex/hexx.htm" target="main">

5. The easiest solution is to do a search and replace of [target="Main"]
with [target="_top"] without the [].

6. Also, I don't think search engine spiders follow URL contained within a
drop down menu.
--

==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================
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Background: I operate a web site at www.folkart.com. We sell art and crafts
from different parts of the world. In the past all our web pages were
created by me (a very non-tech type person) using the FrontPage.

Because

of
my non-technical background I'm certain I use only a fraction of FrontPage's
capabilities. For example I did not use styles or CSS. I FTP'd web

pages
to

the unix server.

Now we're trying to use more of the functionality of FrontPage 2002 and
we're looking forward to using the new version when it's released

later
this

summer or fall. I am attempting to learn and use CSS and we're now
'publishing' the web pages rather than using FTP.

The current problem I'm experiencing deals with hypertext links. The problem
can be best explained by viewing two web pages:

The first web page www.folkart.com/home/hex-old.htm is the original

web
page

we created years ago and FTP'd to the server. The hyperlinks in this 'old'
web page do NOT create a new window. This is great; we do not want a new
window.

Today I made modifications to the file and save as
www.folkart.com/home/hex.htm. Basically we're changing the format (colors
and backgrounds) and we're using CSS, and we're 'publishing' the

revised
web

pages rather than FTP. We did NOT indended to change any of

hyperlinks.
YET

for some reason the hyperlinks now spawn a new web page.

First, what is causing the changes to the hyperlinks? Between the hex-old.hm
and the hex.htm we did not change the link structure. Yet the links now
function differently.

Second, does the use of CSS have any effect on hyperlinks? One change that
we made between the hex-old.htm and hex.htm was that we added a CSS.

Could

a
style be set that changes the hyperlinks?

We have several thousand web pages to revise. If FrontPage is going to
change how the hyperlinks operate we may need to revisit how we make these
revisions. HELP!!

thanks, Cecil