HOW TO FIX A broken link. (A lot to read but easy to do!)

Look at the page with the broken link, with just the Microsoft Explorer browser
(In other words, don’t yet go up to File and select Edit with Microsoft FrontPage.)

Now put the cursor on the broken link, and right mouse-click it and select ‘Properties’ from the bottom of the list that pops up.

This will show you the address where the computer is trying to find your page file.

If the address given is like the one below, then the computer is looking in the C drive, which is your desk or home computer, for the page file called sharks.htm

file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings /Desktop /sharks.htm

      (ignore the ‘%20’, I think that is what computers put when they want to make a space!)

It is easy to fix, you just delete everything in the address, except the file name, the last bit.
So you have instead just sharks or the computer to look for.

(This is called a relative link rather than an absolute link.)

But the best thing to do is first check that the document file you want people to link to and see, is actually in your new web folder, in the folder with your name on it.
(If its not, then right click copy it from wherever it is, and then right click paste it there!)

The second and last thing you have to do, is to go up to ­­File and select Edit with Microsoft FrontPage, on the web page with the broken link

Then right mouse click the broken hyperlink and delete everything in the address except the file name, the last bit!

Then click save. Done!

Now the computer will look in your web folder, rather than an absolute location on a particular drive.