links to sub folder and back

[toefunky]

Hello all
newbie here looking to learn how to build a website from scratch and needing help. Im currently working my way through my first quals for web design EDCC advanced level and find myself stuck


The first section is ok
Section one create a site structure
1. Create a folder for web site
2. Create a folder for 2 site sections within the main folder and name them according to the section
3. Create an image folder

Think Ive got this section right, in fact I no I have lol

Section 2 Create a skeleton website ( think I got this one right as well )
1. Create a home page and call iit index and place in main folder
2 Create two sections pages, giving then the same name as their folder and place them in their folder

Section 3 Create a Navigation Structure
Now this is where Im struggling I understand how to make a link <a HREF=”one.html”>
But I can seen to make a link back from the folders to the main folder

• Create a set of links to both sections and home page and place on all pages
• Teat links

I have one main folder and 3 sub folders called one, two, images so what I would like to no is what is the code for the link from say folder one back to index page for page two in folder 2

Cheers and many thanks for any help

[ukgeoff]

To start with, it would need to be a very big site to justify pages going in their own folders. This is not normally the way. you would typically have your pages in the same directory with an images diretory below that.

However, if you have to stick with this approach, the best way forward would probably to use absolute addressing instead of the more usual relative.

This means all your page links would need to be of the type;

<a href='http//:www.mysite.co.uk/directory/page.html'...

and your images referencd in a similar way;

<img src='http//:www.mysite.co.uk/images/theimage.jpg'>

Like I say, this is not how things are normally done.

[Ryan Fait]

You can also link to ../images/ which would be like going from "pages" to images in the following setup:

/home/documents/pages
/home/images

[daygon]

think of your codeing like this...
../ = backing out of a folder main<-images
/ =entering a folder main->images

say like you have a page but you need to link a file to it but this page is 3 subfolders deep. then you have to use ../../../ that il take you out of 3 folders. Example:

../ ../ ../ (what this is basicly saying is
main(file here)file.wmv<-sub1<-sub2<-sub3(page here)

get it?

and if you need to go into a file without exiting the folder you in but going into another folder then your code would look like

main/sub1/sub2/sub3/file.jpg
main(page here)->sub1->sub2->sub3->file.jpg

now do you get it? Its simple. long but simple.

[Perad]

Use dynamic links... "../linklocation" as opposed to static "http://linklocation"

This means if you move the site it will still function fine, also lets you run it off a cd