web design prob

[philKS2]

Hi

I've used Dreamweaver CS3 to create a website www.scooop.co.uk

It is hosted on 000webhost.com

I have a problem that when I create a link to another page, I enter www.google.com BUT the website prefixes the link with www.scooop.co.uk so it comes up trying to find www.scooop.co.uk/www.google.com and of course that does not exist !!!

Any ideas??

I can't work out if this is a problem with my webhosting people (they say they cant help) , or Dreamweaver?


Phil

[S2central.net]

You need to get it working with 'absolute' links... the way its setup at the minute is using 'relative' links which is why it associates the host url as a prefix. On the tools I use I get asked whether the link is relative or not, but there is a default setting for it - pretty sure anyway.

[Rusty]

Look at the target box at the bottom, needs to be prefixed http:// not the website or anything else. Pretty much what Paul said

[Sonic]

You need to get it working with 'absolute' links...

An absolute path is the complete URL, e.g. http://www.google.co.uk

A relative URL is anything else, so if you're in /forum/index.php and you link to www.google.co.uk you'll be linking to /forum/www.google.co.uk

You can go relative to the root of the site by using /index.html, so using the example above you'd go from /forum/index.php to /index.html.

[philKS2]

Thank you all so much - yes very simple indeed and all fixed. Now I need to actually work on the website design!!