Software for absolute URLS ? ( 3 Views )

Does anyone know of any software that would allow me to create a website using absolute URLs instead of relative ones on my hard drive? I believe DW does (?) but I haven't got the money (one day) - anything out there cheap, or even free?

Many thanks

Oops. Forgot to clarify - I'm not looking for an editor or anything, just some simple 'folder' or summat, an environment in which I can see the site working without having to upload it. (!)

(harun_1996_58, Monaco)

Not sure if I understand your question right. Basically, right now when you're developing your pages, you just use Explorer and double click on them to view in your browser? Your pages are just static html then?

What you need is a web server installed on your pc.

What operating system are you using? You can install a scaled down version IIS on Windows 98, 2k Pro and XP Pro. IIS is a Windows web server, so basically you'll be able to access your web pages via links such as
http://localhost/index.htm

Alternatively, you can download Apache, which you can install on almost every flavor of Windows.
http://www.apache.org

(hayat , Bulgaria)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paracelsus2

Does anyone know of any software that would allow me to create a website using absolute URLs instead of relative ones on my hard drive? I believe DW does (?) but I haven't got the money (one day) - anything out there cheap, or even free?

Many thanks

Oops. Forgot to clarify - I'm not looking for an editor or anything, just some simple 'folder' or summat, an environment in which I can see the site working without having to upload it. (!)

As cmorbutts pointed out, a webserver would suit you nicely...

However, I'm confused why you feel it necessary to 'hard-code' your HD's path information into your website? Every browser supports relative URLS, so long as the context is correct.

For example, loading 'index.htm' in 'c:\documents and settings\lieut_data\my_website\', can reference an image in 'c:\documents and settings\lieut_data\my_website\images' by simply including:

HTML Code:

<img src="images/my_image.gif">

Or, if you are in 'c:\documents and settings\lieut_data\my_website\sub_section', you can return to your main index.htm page easily:

HTML Code:

<a href="../index.htm">Return</a>

Upload these files to your 'real' website, and they still work :)

Now, if you are using PHP or Perl (or some flavour of a server-side parser), you are going to need a locally installed webserver... but :D

(hamde, United Arab Emirates)

Thanks, people. I should have clarified.

I'm using Win 98SE, and I hand code CSS for my personal site. There are benefits in having absolute URLs instead of relative ones from a SE POV.
What I do at present is to creat a site using relative links, then use Editpad Lite and its Replace abilities to change them all to absolute ones. It takes a couple of passes to do this, is very quick and very efficient, but there's lots of room for human error.
I then upload the site and double check everything, which takes more time.
I want to be able to develope the site in an environment that mimics the web, so that I can click on the pages (on my hard drive) using absolute URLS.
I appreciate your help - is a web server still what I need (it sounds a bit heavy to me - is there a frightening learning curve?)

Many thanks for your help so far

(vedat, Pakistan)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paracelsus2

There are benefits in having absolute URLs instead of relative ones from a SE POV.

What are these benefits, precisely?

Andy

(umut, Chile)

You're right, Andy. I've had a closer look, and yes, there are benefits, but increasingly marginal ones.

Here's a few quotes that I've picked up, they can say these things much better than I can. Hope it's alright to post them here:

<Actually, I'd personally recommend people use the second version - absolute URLs - certainly on major entry pages (such as the main domain index page).
That will help stop PR being split between important pages. At least if people use the http://www. prefix - or not - will become irrelevant if absolute URLs are used, as the visitors - and PR - will be directed to specific links. However, if your site is accessed using the http://www. and without the prefix, then your entire site could suffer with split PR.
Main thing, I think, is to not link to your home page with a relative <a href="index.html"> because you then may be splitting PR between http://yoursite.com/ and http://yoursite.com/index.html which search engines regard as different things/places entirely. >

<Without absolute urls there may end up being some confusion between http://www.yoursite.com/somepage.html and http://yoursite.com/somepage.html because your'e not making it clear which one it is.
Google has been pretty buggy on this lately and may be best to avoid the possibility of problems from the start.>

<I've been using absolute urls for a couple of years now and haven't seen any negative consequences. I am pretty sure most of the major SE spiders have the ability to determine whether the link is from the same site or an outside site. They just have to do a little regular expression work -- parsing urls and comparing strings. I started to do this because I was finding duplicate pages showing up in the SEs, ones with the www and pages without. Now I do it because I do not want to leave anything to chance, sometimes bots are very stupid. >

<if you have absolute links, you know that it's much harder for a spider to mess up. If you have relative links, there's always a chance that you didn't write it correctly, or the spider won't decipher it correctly.>

(hülya, Spain)

I guess I can see the point with the split of PR between http:// and http://www

When I link to back to my home page though, I just use <a href="/"> rather than <a href="index.html"> - this gets round the problem with split PR when linking to your home page.

Andy.

(hande, Belize)

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