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Odessa Huggins

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I have just started the Complete Web Design video tutorials. I was almost successful in completing the code for the first web site but somehow some of my links are not working on some of my pages. I will post the code for the index page below. The tables tutorial link is not working on that page. I have 2 more pages with broken links but I will wait to see what response I get here and try to fix the others if I can. I am pretty new here so I will appreciate any help that can be offered from this forum. Thanks!

 

Index Page

 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>

<head>

<title>web design - tutorials: HOME</title>

<META NAME="description" content="Learn webdesign.">

<META NAME="keywords" content="web design, web designers, creating a website'>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

 

<link href=ROOT.CSS" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

 

</head>

 

 

<body>

LOGO GOES HERE

 

<div id="navigation">

 

<ul>

 

<li>Home</li>

<li><a href="productList.html">Products</a></li>

<li><a href="cssTutorial/css.html">CSS</a></li>

<li><a href="tablesTutorial.html">Tables Tutorial</a></li>

 

</ul>

 

</div>

 

 

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<div id="centerDoc">

 

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Do you actually have a file called "tablesTutorial.html" in the very same folder you main document is in? And take note - file names are case sensitive - so tablesTutorial.html is not the same as Tablestutorial.html.

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Also -- this often happens to beginners when they are first getting started -- check to make sure your files are named properly. Both Windows and Mac by default hide the file extension, so it's possible that your file is actually named filename.html.txt rather than filename.html.

 

Take a look at this topic and see if it helps: http://www.killersites.com/community/index.php?/topic/3010-cant-open-my-website/page__gopid__16509entry16509

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Do you actually have a file called "tablesTutorial.html" in the very same folder you main document is in? And take note - file names are case sensitive - so tablesTutorial.html is not the same as Tablestutorial.html.

 

 

Hi Andrea

 

Thanks for responding. The file name is tablesTutorial.html. I learnt this format from the video tutorial. I have another file name which is productList.html and it works. I can try the format you suggested to see if it works.

 

Thanks again will check back.

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Also -- this often happens to beginners when they are first getting started -- check to make sure your files are named properly. Both Windows and Mac by default hide the file extension, so it's possible that your file is actually named filename.html.txt rather than filename.html.

 

Take a look at this topic and see if it helps: http://www.killersites.com/community/index.php?/topic/3010-cant-open-my-website/page__gopid__16509entry16509

 

 

Thanks Ben

 

I will check out the site and check

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Also -- this often happens to beginners when they are first getting started -- check to make sure your files are named properly. Both Windows and Mac by default hide the file extension, so it's possible that your file is actually named filename.html.txt rather than filename.html.

 

Take a look at this topic and see if it helps: http://www.killersites.com/community/index.php?/topic/3010-cant-open-my-website/page__gopid__16509entry16509

 

 

To Ben and Andrea

 

Thanks for your help but I got through. I messed up on my file paths. This is fun, really enjoying this. I am going to now continue with learning CSS.

 

Thanks alot

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