Fixing Bad Links
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Links can be a headache if your computer is not cooperating. Sometimes it may add references to folders or files that are located on your hard drive. This will render them inaccessible when users attempt to access them via your web page. In order to fix a bad link, you must be aware that a link to another site must always begin with "http://" and contain the rest of the file address. For example: http://cuip.uchicago.edu A file will not function if it is addressed as "www.yahoo.com", "http://" must be included. Our lesson will be to correct the link below. Go into the html source for this page, find the link below and take out all the extraneous text and punctuation prior to the "http://" etc. Remember, the html code for links begins with "<a href=" (You will probably never need to fix any link address at the end of the url.) Once you have the url address beginning with "http://" you will be able to use the link. The URL must be contained within quote marks. Test it!
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