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Is it necessary to put the drive and directory name in links?

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September 10, 2020
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I'm new to web creation. When I check my work offline with Firefox it has to have the drive and directory included in links to find them. It seems to me that, when it goes online, this information will cause problems as it won't be present. Any comments would be appreciated.

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Jack5F92Author

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Thank you for the information. I wrote a couple of sites with Dreamweaver 3 when I was teaching but I seem to have forgotten a lot. (Old age?) Now I'm doing a simple site for my photography to stop my brain going to mush during Covid 19. Thanks again. Yes, I'm still using Dreamweaver 3.

Nancy OShea

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"I'm still using Dreamweaver 3."

I'm afraid that's nothing to be proud of. DW 3 released in 1999. Nobody should be using outdated web authoring software today. The web has changed too much. Use at your own risk.

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Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Nancy OShea

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If you haven't already, go to Site > New Site and define your local site folder. Example, C:\MySite\. Without this critical 1st step, DW cannot manage assets and link paths for you.

There are three types of link paths:

Document-Relative (../folder/filename.html)
Site Root-Relative ( /folder/filename.html)
Absolute URL (https://example.com/folder/filename.html)

See the Dreamweaver User Guide for more details.

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/dreamweaver/user-guide.html/in/dreamweaver/using/linking-navigation.ug.html

Post back if you have any questions.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Ben M

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As Ben stated, you will need to setup your site. The files you link to in HTML have to live somewhere, whether it is your own server, or another server. If the files you link to are on your server then you will see relative links to those files. However, if you have a file on another server, maybe a youtube embed as an example, then you will be linking to that remote server in your code.

BenPleysier

Community Expert

Did you setup your site???

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