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In article <X6KA8AALxH10EwR3@atomor.demon.co.uk>,
 Tony Morgan <tonym@atomor.demon.co.uk> wrote:


> It is *always* best practice to use *relative* addressing of *all*
> internal links

Yup!

> All *competent* (not professional - just competent) web authors, create
> their sites on their hard disk and thoroughly debug the site *before*
> uploading it to the server.

Yup squared!  :-)

It also means that when something trashes the server (not *entirely*
unknown in a uni environment! ;-> ) you have your 'local' copy of the site
in a nice form to reload.

> I know it all seems a little confusing to the newbie who perhaps isn't
> familiar with directories and relative addressing. This is *one* of the
> reasons why I (to the point of tedium) advocate that those starting out
> use the FlexEdit HTML Editor.

Erm... Since this thread is appearing on c.s.acorn.misc (amongst others!)
the orginator may be using RiscOS. If so I should point out that !HTMLEdit
does a very nice job of allowing you to work as Tony describes. Dunno
about the other RiscOS alternatives, but !HTMLEdit is excellent and works
out all the relative addresses for you when you 'drag and drop' the files
where required!  :-)

Cjairs,

Jim

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