external CSS: relative addressing

[CarolW]

Coherent Dog is growing; I have a page I need to post quickly, but my /www directory is already too full, and I need to make a subdirectory.

I'm worse than weak at relative addressing. I've consolidated my pages so every single one now uses the same external style sheet, which is located in my /www directory.

Now I'm about to make a subdirectory called med, in which I'll put numbers of pages.

files I will need are:

SSIs

which are currently in /www/include
(a whole bunch; text files that specify banner and footer images, and navigation files, both horizontal and vertical-down-the-right)

CSS

/www
(codog.css)

IMAGES

I don't think I have to worry about this one, unless I need to edit the text files in the /include subdirectory. For instance, here's one of those files:


<div id="masthead">
<a href="index.htm"><img alt="Where Eagles and Herons Watch Dogs (32KB)" title="Where Eagles and Herons Watch Dogs" src="images/logos/codogacc.jpg" /></a>
</div>


But I foresee a difficulty there, too; that is, in the code example, the images directory specified is /www/images/logos

however, my .html directory will be /www/meds

So - am I asking this question right? I'm completely dyslexic about this sort of thing; have no idea how to specify the URLs while sticking to relative addressing, which I most urgently want to do!

Is it clear what I'm asking?

Thanks again, in advance again, for your help!

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:55:45

[Scleppel]

<a href="index.htm"><img alt=" ... " title=" ... " src="images/logos/codogacc.jpg" /></a>

If you are in the med directory (http://www.your_sute.org/med/)
then

index.html will mean
http://www.your_sute.org/med/index.html

and

images/logos/codogacc.jpg
http://www.your_sute.org/med/images/logos/codogacc.jpg

Personally I always find it better to use absolute links.

[CarolW]

Hmm. I've found relative addressing very useful many times, but maybe using so much SSI changes that.

I'll consider very carefully what you're suggesting. Having moved to using a lot of SSI, I can no longer check every detail of my pages here at home on my machine anyway; that was part of the point of sticking to relative addressing. So maybe I should move to absolute.

Doing so would certainly be less confusing to me!

I blanch at the thought of having to edit pages already up - but maybe I wouldn't have to do that. I have about 70 pages up - eeek!

Thanks a million for your help and suggestions, Scleppel.

Anybody have a different opinion? (Obvious fishing here, haha!) - but seriously, I really do appreciate your help, and I might use it!

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:48:51

[Scleppel]

You don't have to make every link an absolute link, just links like 'home' that will always be http://your_site.org/index.html or if you know your images will always be in the http://your_site.org/images/ directory, then it's probably easier to use an absolute link for your images. This could cause a problem while testing though, but you could always make a folder C:\images\ ...

[CarolW]

Hi Scleppel,

You don't have to make every link an absolute link, just links like 'home' that will always be http://your_site.org/index.html or if you know your images will always be in the http://your_site.org/images/ directory, then it's probably easier to use an absolute link for your images. This could cause a problem while testing though, but you could always make a folder C:\images\ ...

Sorry a bit late replying - nursing one dog through recovery from knee surgery while the other and the cat attend (doesn't make things easier, haha - but actually all are being very good).

I think I follow you pretty well - understood what you're saying. I need to think a lot, because I have a funny feeling I ought to bite the bullet, and make a complete change of directory structure on my site.

[GROAN!]

Of course, I've bitten the bullet before - at least twice - but now it's not 30 or 50 pages, but around 70 of them. YIkes! Using a lot of SSI, though, helps simplify matters for biting bullets.

Maybe I'll use a combination of absolute and relative addressing, as you suggest. Thanks a lot! I really appreciate your help!

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:13:43