Different webpage templates lead to "blinking"

Hi,

Based on advice from another thread here, I had a single webpage put into its
own folder so it could be extension-less, so to speak. E.g., not require the
viewer to type in .htm.

I think my Dreamweaver is set so the links are all relative. Because when I
put the file there, the menu options pointed not to the actual files, but to
non-existing files within that unique folder.

So I had a different template for that single file. Same template, but
different menu options, to get the menu options to point to the actual files.

However when I do so, whether the menus look like ../fees.htm or the full URL
(http://www.boo.com/fees.htm), there's this temporary disappearing (like a
blinking) of the first webpage, to be replaced by the other webpage.

It's not seamless. And it needs to be seamless.

Suggestions? Comments? I'm relatively new at this.

Thanks,

Alexy

I think my Dreamweaver is set so the links are all relative.

Look at the code. If the links are like this -

<a href="../whatever...

or this -

<a href="whatever...

then they are document relative. The path assumes that you begin following
it AT THE LOCATION OF THAT PAGE, hence relative to the current document.

If the links are like this -

<a href="/whatever...

then they are ROOT relative. The path assumes that you begin following it
NOT AT THE CURRENT DOCUMENT, BUT AT THE ROOT of the site.

So I had a different template for that single file. Same template, but
different menu options, to get the menu options to point to the actual
files.

Crazy, and totally unnecessary.

Give us a link to one of these blinky pages, please.

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"alexy_han" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hi,

Based on advice from another thread here, I had a single webpage put into
its
own folder so it could be extension-less, so to speak. E.g., not require
the
viewer to type in .htm.

I think my Dreamweaver is set so the links are all relative. Because when
I
put the file there, the menu options pointed not to the actual files, but
to
non-existing files within that unique folder.

So I had a different template for that single file. Same template, but
different menu options, to get the menu options to point to the actual
files.

However when I do so, whether the menus look like ../fees.htm or the full
URL
(http://www.boo.com/fees.htm), there's this temporary disappearing (like a
blinking) of the first webpage, to be replaced by the other webpage.

It's not seamless. And it needs to be seamless.

Suggestions? Comments? I'm relatively new at this.

Thanks,

Alexy