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Ryan Mitchell - 25 Oct 2005 16:56 GMT

I uploaded the whole index-files folder and the seperate index file to
geocites and the home page works but when I click on links I just get a blank
page. I noticed the links are like index-files/page368.htm which must be the
problem but how do I correct this so everything does link properly.

I really like the site design so it's annoying that I can't use it.

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David Bartosik - 25 Oct 2005 20:45 GMT

The links in the nav bar are "relative" links, not "absolute" links.
Geocities is framing your pages (that's the scroll bar nxt to the
advertisement). The framing is breaking the links. A workaround is to not use
the nav bar wizard and explicitly input absolute addresses on your links.

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> I uploaded the whole index-files folder and the seperate index file to
> geocites and the home page works but when I click on links I just get a blank
> page. I noticed the links are like index-files/page368.htm which must be the
> problem but how do I correct this so everything does link properly.
>
> I really like the site design so it's annoying that I can't use it.

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Ryan Mitchell - 26 Oct 2005 16:12 GMT

I don't know what you mean sorry but to fix the problem all i had to do was
go to web options in publisher, uncheck the box to organise the files so when
i published them I didn't have a folder and the index page seperate I simply
had all the files in one folder. Once i uploaded all of them to geocites and
tried my site everything worked perfectly.

I got that information from a site you have linked to in other threads,
thanks.

> The links in the nav bar are "relative" links, not "absolute" links.
> Geocities is framing your pages (that's the scroll bar nxt to the
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> > I really like the site design so it's annoying that I can't use it.

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David Bartosik [MSFT MVP] - 26 Oct 2005 16:31 GMT

Well you just taught me something. That evidently Geocities framing can't
traverse the sub-folder. If all the files are at the root level their
framing doesn't break the site.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

>I don't know what you mean sorry but to fix the problem all i had to do was
> go to web options in publisher, uncheck the box to organise the files so
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>> > I really like the site design so it's annoying that I can't use it.

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