Embedded links in Templates ...

[simonwar]

If I add a link into an Actinic Template, say in Dreamweaver, I have been doing the following ....

<a href="/PreviewHTML/P_shop.html"><img src="entcat.gif" width="175" height="47" border="0"></a>

where, entcat.gif is in the Site 1 folder.

This previews fine in IE6 through Dweaver Preview, but what will happen with this link when I Generate Web Site, i.e. what should this link read like so it works ?

S.

[NormanRouxel]

Unfortunately this won't work on a live site for two reasons.

1) All files on the live site (except the Brochure home page) are in the acatalog directory. There are no sub-directories like PreviewHTML.

2) The page name P_shop.html is specific to the Preview pages. It'll probably need to be

<a href="shop.html"><img src="entcat.gif" width="175" height="47" border="0"></a>

You'll probably have to do such custom navigation testing on a live site (or use a test server instead).

[simonwar]

How does Actinic perform on IIS, or is there a better FREE testing server I can download and use?

I have XP Home, and I would rather sort out these "easy to solve" teathing issues before a live upload.

Also, will the whole shop run just like an FTP'd site ?

Thanks, S.

P.S. Just realised XP Home doesn't have IIS, what a crock? Anyone recommend an easy Test Server ?

[Duncan Rounding]

You can load apache on XP, search around on the web for apache and perl on XP - for eg:
http://www.wampserver.com/en/presentation.php
http://activestate.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePerl

Otherwise just put up a 'front' page on your real server saying 'coming soon' and have the shop in acatalog without a link to it while testing - that's the easiest and will also iron out any issues that might arise with your hosting.

Edit: I was also going to post a link to warftp but that site seems to have gone offline. If you also want an ftp server you can try here:
http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/server/fwftpserver.html

[simonwar]

How do you check through the pages without a link from the index page?

Can i access pages by directly typing the shop address into the browser bar ?
E.g, www.mysite/acatalog/shop.html and then follow all of the links through the pages and sections ?

Can anyone else do this as well, if they type the same, (not overly worried if they did...... just sounding out the situation.)

S.

[Duncan Rounding]

Yes and Yes. But I wouldn't worry about other people stumbling across it.

[simonwar]

Got it!

Thanks, S.