Bigpapi Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 Just want to ask what is the best method for linking within a site. If it makes a difference at all. If my home page is mysite.com (index.html), and I wanted to make a contact us page. When I add a Contact Us link to the home page, would I only need to have the link as contactus.html, or would I be better served using the full URL, such as <a href="http://www.mysite.com/contactus">Contact Us</a>. I hope I explained that ok. thanks Quote
falkencreative Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 I tend to prefer to use relative paths (contactus.html) rather than using the full path since if for some reason the URL changes (for example, I'm developing the site on a development server, and once it's finished it will be transferred to a different URL) that won't mean I have to fix all the links. Also, saves me a little bit of time and keeps my code shorter. It is a personal preference thing though -- I don't believe one method is necessarily "better" over the other. Quote
Cad Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 I'd agree with Ben. In addition to the benefits he mentioned, it also means you don't have to find/replace every link if 'someone' decides to change the domain name at the last minute (www.mysite.com to, say, www.mygreatsite.net). Hope that helps! Quote
Bigpapi Posted March 22, 2010 Author Report Posted March 22, 2010 That was actually the answer I was hoping for, but I wanted to check before I got too deep into it. It certainly will make it easier overall. Thank you Quote
administrator Posted March 23, 2010 Report Posted March 23, 2010 Of course find+replace can make it easy for you change your absolute paths should you ever need to. Stefan Quote
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