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Regardless of whether you use the open dialogue or the point-and-shoot method, new links are by default relative. The only thing to watch out for is that using the open dialogue you may inadvertently link to files which are outside the root folder of the site. Such files will go AWOL on upload. You need to be a little more careful using this method. 

You can change GoLive's preferences to make new links absolute by default. Do it if you know why you want to do it; if you don't know why you want to do it, don't do it. 

Absolute URLs are also updated when files referenced by them are moved. 

Absolute vs. Relative URLs 

In the root folder of the site, a relative link from a.html to b.html is "b.html", while an absolute link  is "/b.html". 

A relative link from c.html, in a sub-folder called sublevel1 to a.html would be "../a.html" while an absolute one would be "/a.html". 

In the other direction, a relative link from a.html to c.html would "sublevel1/c.html" while the absolute link is "/sublevel1/c.html". 

Finally, a link from d.html, in the sub-folder sublevel2 inside the folder sublevel1, to a.html would be "../../a.html", while the absolute link would be "/a.html". 

Absolute URLs always describe the path to the file *from the root directory of the site*; relative URLs describe the path to the file from your present position within the directory structure of the site. 

The "rope" tool appears to be more generic while the open dialog is very specific.   

I'm not really sure what you mean there. 

John
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 John Donaldson
 Technical Support Engineer
 Adobe Systems Europe Ltd