Fixing broken links

I'm a stark beginner.

I created a Web page using my ISP's software; I used html, which I typed into Notepad, and then I copied that text into the html form on the server. I have my domain host redirecting browsers to the Web page <anne@expert-edit.com>. That all works fine. The image links, which are stored on my personal files on the ISP server, work too.

But I have two Web links, one to a Web site, and one to a page on a site I created separately on my ISP's server (hope this makes sense; I'm not sure I'm using the correct terminology!).

I can't figure out why the links don't work. Here's what I wrote for one of them:

<A HREF="http://www.the-efa.org/services/jobfees.htm/">TYPICAL COPYEDITING FEES
</A>

Any ideas?

Thanks so much!

Anne

 

Fixing broken links (rev.)

Sorry! The URL of my site is expert-edit.com (no Anne).

I'm a stark beginner.

I created a Web page using my ISP's software; I used html, which I typed into Notepad, and then I copied that text into the html form on the server. I have my domain host redirecting browsers to the Web page <anne@expert-edit.com>. That all works fine. The image links, which are stored on my personal files on the ISP server, work too.

But I have two Web links, one to a Web site, and one to a page on a site I created separately on my ISP's server (hope this makes sense; I'm not sure I'm using the correct terminology!).

I can't figure out why the links don't work. Here's what I wrote for one of them:

<A HREF="http://www.the-efa.org/services/jobfees.htm/">TYPICAL COPYEDITING FEES
</A>

Any ideas?

Thanks so much!

Anne

 

Don't know too much about it myself but see if this does anything.

<A HREF="http://www.the-efa.org/services/jobfees.htm/" target="_blank">TYPICAL COPYEDITING FEES
</A>

If it works it should open in a new window.

 

Thanks so much!

Somehow, I managed to fix one of the links. The other was linking to a page at my old Web site, and I couldn't figure out how to get it to work, so I just put that text on my Web page---a little inelegant, maybe, but better than a broken link!

Thanks so much for your help.

Anne

 

Look at the target of your link:
http://www.the-efa.org/services/jobfees.htm/

See that last "/" on there? That means you're telling the browser that jobfees.htm is a directory name, not a file. The link you have above is actually pointing to:
http://www.the-efa.org/services/jobfees.htm/index.htm

Which doesn't exist. Delete the last "/" and it should work fine.

Like so:

PHP:

<a href="http://www.the-efa.org/services/jobfees.htm">TYPICAL COPYEDITING FEES</a>


 

Wow, thanks! Somehow I stumbled onto the answer myself (although I didn't know why deleting the final slash would help).

Anne