Seeing links in site while site is not online

[Samurai Fox]

When still developing site, so while your site still isn't online...can you live preview opening link in your site to your site (i.e. from website.com to website.com/contact) ?

[Ingolme]

Links will behave the same on your computer as on the internet. If you have multiple HTML files on your computer you can link between them using relative paths.

[Samurai Fox]

Than what's wrong here?

 

<ul>

<li class="page_item page-item-1">

<a href="http://scrapelight.com/">Home</a></li>

<li class="page_item page-item-2 page_item_has_children current_page_ancestor current_page_parent">

<a href="http://scrapelight.com/game/">Game</a></li>

<li class="page_item page-item-3">

<a href="http://scrapelight.com/shape/">Shape</a></li>

<li class="page_item page-item-4">

<a href="http://scrapelight.com/journey/">Journey</a></li>

</ul>

Edited February 16, 2014 by Samurai Fox

[Ingolme]

Those are absolute links. You need to use relative links.

<a href="./">Home</a><a href="game/">Game</a><a href="shape/">Shape</a><a href="journey/">Journey</a>

The second problem that will occur after this change is that you're linking to folders rather than files. Normally, a web server will be configured to select a file but if you're running this in your local filesystem that won't happen. You can download server software to test your pages on your home computer. I recommend looking up WAMP Server and installing it.

[Samurai Fox]

So this:

<ul><li class="page_item page-item-1"> <a href="./">Home</a>

<li class="page_item page-item-2 page_item_has_children current_page_ancestor current_page_parent"> <a href="game/">Game</a>

<li class="page_item page-item-3"> <a href="shape/">Shape</a>

<li class="page_item page-item-4"> <a href="journey/">Journey</a>

</ul>

 

or this only:

<a href="./">Home</a><a href="game/">Game</a><a href="shape/">Shape</a><a href="journey/">Journey</a>

Edited February 16, 2014 by Samurai Fox

[Ingolme]

It doesn't matter. I only showed the links because they're the relevant part. Here's an explanation about absolute and relative links: http://kb.iu.edu/data/abwp.html

 

When you want to link to your website files regardless of where on the internet your website is you need to use relative links.