"Base location" problem?

[Roland]

Hi all
I posted this a few hours ago, but it must have got lost in cyberspace.
I use FP 2003, Win XP and IE7. I've used FP since FP1998. I'm a doit
yourselfer who doesn't care about learning any more than necessary to create
a website, just typing and inserting links and photos. FP has done it, though
I've never really been excited about the performance. Seems like one wrong
keystroke can cause disasters.

I was just adding a few new pages to my www.rolandrhoades.com website, and
using page properties to add title, description and keywords for search
engines. I noticed one more box I hadn't used before - Base Location. I
clicked on the ? to see what that meant and still didn't know after reading
it. Figuring it might help with search engines, I wrote the exact webpage
address for base location, ie www.rolandrhoades.com/cambridge1.htm Big
mistake - messed up everything. And I don't seem to be able to delete it; it
just pops back in there. Photos that I inserted don't work (I fixed some by
simply reinserting), and you can also see that for many of the gravestones
listed, I inserted hyperlinks to photos. But when I upload and click on any
of the links, nothing happens.

What is going on and what is wrong?

Also, for uncomplicated website building, does anybody recommend any of the
FP next generation programs listed on the FP webpage? I think the only other
alternative is Dreamweaver, which sounds like overkill for what I want to do.

Thanks.

 

[Steve Easton]

Switch to code view and delete this:
<base href="http://rolandrhoades.com/cambridge1.htm" target="_blank">

It will be easier to find if when in code view you right click and select "Reformat HTML"

Also imho, optimizing html accomplishes nothing except making the code harder to read.


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[Kathleen Anderson]

It will be easier to find if when in code view you right click and select
"Reformat HTML"

Also imho, optimizing html accomplishes nothing except making the code
harder to read.

Agreed. I took one look and gave up - it all runs together and it's too hard
to read.


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[Steve Easton]

Agreed. I took one look and gave up - it all runs together and it's too hard to read.

Yep. Usually what I do with one of those is open it in FP or EW or SP-D, switch to code view and reformat.

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[Roland]

Thank you Steve and Kathleen. Took a while to get time to put your answers to
use. It did fix the base location and linking problems. WHY did MS put the
base location box in the page properties box to begin with (especially
without explaining what it was, which I still don't know)?
Also WHY did FP develop the Optimize html when publishing box if it just
messes things up? Has Expression Web fixed those things?
I'll start a new post for my upgrading questions.