Trouble with text links

[jerryl]

Hi All,
Its been a while, I hope everybody is doing well.
I've had my index page up for a while, but now I'm trying to put up my other pages and having some problems. They seem to publish OK but the links won't work. My page is www.trygoogleadwords.com
Hell, I can't even get the link to work in this post! Anyway, its easy to forget things if they are new to you and you don't keep at it.
Back to my problem, in the text menu properties window I've put
http://www.trygoogleadwords.com/setup.html as the destination URL for one of the pages. That should work right? I'll wait and let someone respond, if you need any other info please tell me.
Thanks for your help
Jerryl

[AJ113]

Re: Trouble with text links

Yes, it should work - providing there actually is a published page called setup.html. It doesn't look like there is one.

[Bethers]

Re: Trouble with text links

the setup.html in your post goes to a page not found.

As for the links in your navigation - everyone I looked at had a typo -
you have www without a . after it.

But, as the above poster says, you need to make sure the pages you're publishing are named exactly how you're calling them up in the url.

[jerryl]

Re: Trouble with text links

Thanks AJ113, and Bethers,
So let me get this straight, I should bring up the page click on "file" and "name page as" than name it the same as the URL in the "text menu properties box"?
In other words name the page http://www.trygoogleadwords.com/setup.html?
One other question, just out of curiosity, what happens to pages published that you can't find? Out there somewhere in cyberspace?
Thanks, I'm sure glad you folks are here for me to talk to!
Jerryl

[Bethers]

Re: Trouble with text links

No.

The name of the page has to be what you use for the url. So, in your example above, the page name would simply be setup

The pages are published - under the names you named them. So if you look at the name, then you just have to make the url match.

[jerryl]

Re: Trouble with text links

Thanks Bethers,
I got them to link, although I'm not sure I understand it fully yet. Anyway I'll keep at it and by this time next year I might really understand what I'm doing
lol.
I'm still wondering where pages are that publish but you never see?
Are they just taking up space on the server, or if they don't link to anything are they deleted? Again just curious.
Thanks,
Jerryl

[AJ113]

Re: Trouble with text links

There's nothing to understand really. Let's say you're going to design and publish a page called aboutus

1. In BV, name your page aboutus. On your computer you will find it has been named aboutus.bvp

2. Publish your page.

3. The address of your page will be www.yoursite.com/aboutus.html

The only reason that you have pages that you cannot see is that you have not placed a link to them anywhere. Look in your public_html folder by using the file manager in Control Panel, you will see all the pages that you have published. If you don't want them there you can delete them.

[jerryl]

Re: Trouble with text links

Thanks AJ113,
I'm as green with this stuff as you could be. It says it's as easy to use as word, but I've never used word. I had never even sent an email until a few months ago. Like I said I'm working at it and learning, and I'm catching on.
Thanks again,
Jerryl

[AJ113]

Re: Trouble with text links

Don't worry about it. We were all in your situation at some point. It's quite a steep learning curve but if you persevere you will soon get the hang of it.