Question

When creating the html files for my website, I had no problem understanding how to create links so that users could navigate between pages. For example, this worked fine to send someone to the about page:

<a href="about.html">ABOUT</a>

I’m having issues upon uploading the html files to my web server.

How, do I get About link to send the user to: http://www.blahblahblah.com/about ?

My landing page has been renamed index.html.

Answer 1

You need to add http:// in the href to go to a page on an external site:

<a href="http://www.blahblahblah.com/about">About page on blahblahblah.com</a>

This is because when you simply link to it without the http:// in front (hyper text transfer protocol) it is trying to go to the page “www.blahblahblah.com” which obviously does not eixst on your server. When you add the http://, the browser knows that it is another website and therefore will bring you to the external site.