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Hi Guys, I figured it out... stumbled across an old dialogue where Ben had been assisting another person. The reason why i kept on losing my links when moving the html file into a new folder was that, i would not re-open the notepad where the new file was located to enter the ../ coding. Instead i would enter the ../ coding in notepad where the original location of the html file was located... in my case on the desktop. Not sure if this makes any sense but it worked. i learnt also that using the right button and selecting "open with" and choosing notepad is the way to edit the info. I made the mistake at the very beginning of creating a new text doc in notepad for each of my folders and then resaving as an html. Lots of fun this is!!... Definatley like a puzzle..... Thanks again for all the help.....

Hi Ben, Thank you very much for the help. I moved on to the topic dealing with html and css integration. My css code was not working, but as you pointed out in your email the file extension was not correct. Once corrected everything seems to be working on that point. What still is an issue is when i move a file into another folder all the links fail. I appear to have the correct html coding, however, the erros keep on popping up when clicking on the links.

Hi Andrea, I have to dash but will revisit the forum on this topic in 5 hours. Thank you for your help so far.

Hi Andrea, THank you very much for your help and patience. in the course there are 4 html pages we created with the names index css table tutorial product list Initially all 4 pages were seen on the desktop. Links were created so that it was possible to link between all 4 pages. The problem started when i putt the css into a new folder called cssTutorial see on the desktop. My links no longer worked even when i made the necessary changes in the html coding in all pages. Apologies for the confusion... right now the css (name) is just a name of one of the files we were asked to call. I havent really reached the .css section of the course as of yet as i have hit a rode block with the links within the html section of the course. I see that in your coding of the html in the list area, an added code id= is used before the <a href= . Is my link not working because i am not using the id= coding?

Hi Andrea, I have amended the code to note the css.html, now in small case. <li> <a href="cssTutorial/css.html">CSS</a></li> This change has no effect... still getting error when jumping between links.

Hi Andrea, Please excuse my terminology... when i was referring to css i was implying the css.html file we were asked to build. I see that in the later videos there is discussion about merging css with html. At this stage i am focusing on the html files and moving html files into new directorys without losing the link. Can you see any erros in my text below. This is the index.html file <img src="" boarder="0" alt="Back to Home"> <div id="navigation"> <ul> <li> <a>Home</a></li> <li> <a href="productList.html">Products</a></li> <li> <a href="cssTutorial/CSS.html">CSS</a></li> <li> <a href="tablesTutorial.html">TablesTutorial</a></li> </ul> </div> This is the css.html file which now is in the directory cssTutorial folder. <div id="navigation"> <ul> <li> <a href="../index.html">Home</a></li> <li> <a href="../productList.html">Products</a></li> <li>CSS</li> <li> <a href="../tablesTutorial.html">Tables Tutorial</a></li> </ul> </div>

Hi Andrea, Thank you for your help. I actually moved ahead in the videos to the CSS topis and tried to link a .css file to my html and this would also not work. It seems i have missed an important step somewhere. In video 11 it works on creating links within the .html files and keeping the link even if moved to a new directory. I think i have been typing the exact coding which Stephan has been using in the video, however i keep on getting an error when jumping back from the CSS.html file to the other files (ie Index,ProductList, and TableTutorial).. I just noticed that when in my index.html file, and click on the css.html a new css.html shortcut key appears. this seems unusual as the css.html file should be in the new directory folder cssTutorial.

hello, I have hit a wall, in that i cannot create a link when I move my html file into a new directory. I am on video 11...on "building a website". I have moved my CSS file into a new folder which sits on my desktop called cssTutorial. Once i move my css.html file into the new folder, my other pages continue to see the old link ie when the css.html file was on the same layer. I have checked my coding and everything appears to be working. I have moved ahead in the videos, however this topic i can see is very important and is revisited, so felt i need to fully understand this area. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Ben, The original Index file i had was set to plain text in TextEdit. I went into one of the other TextEdit files which did not have the tags showing and changed the format to plain text but this did not seem to do anything. - Should i be creating a new file in TextEdit for each new HTML page of the site? - I went into TextEdit and created a new file and cut and paste the file Index.html TextEdit file which is working correctly and i think this might do the trick.

Hi Ben, Thank you very much for taking the time to help out. My PC has quicktime on it and i tried to run the mov. courses on it however an error did pop up. I think quicktime on my PC is not the latest release. The videos work fine on the Mac laptop which is how i have been able to go through the course. I would like to try the courses on the PC as i am a bit more comfortable navigating my way around than on the Mac. When i mention that i was not successful creating a new file in text edit (MAC), the reason was that the new text edit file seemed to be in a different format from the format i had initially used in the text editor to type out the html code. The new format in the text edit program no longer shows the tags etc and the back ground screen is grey. Thanks in advance for your help.

My PC wont allow me to play the MOV files downloaded in the Web Design series so i have resulted in using a Mac which i am not familiar with. in video 10 in the Web Design series i have been asked to make copy of the index html file and make 3 other html files which seems to be straight forward. What i cannot figure out is how the instructor created the new "text edit" files ie /Tutorial/CSS and Product Line and how he quickly jumps between them. I tried to just make a copy of the index file in text edit, by using "save as", however i was not successful. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, I just signed up for the Complete Web Designer Course and I am really excited to start going though the classes. I see that there are at least 50 topics to download, however the topics dont appear to be in a specific order. Is there a recommended order in which one should go though these topics? Thank you in advance.