Hello,

I am setting up my a website for my online portfolio here jaredgingerich.com My home page's About Me link doesn't work, and I cannot figure out why. When you click on it it sits there and does nothing. Plese help as I have asked several colleagues about this situation to no avail.

Thank you,

Jared

http://jaredgingerich.com/aboutme.html returns 404 Not Found

http://jaredgingerich.com/aboutme.htm works fine

You need to link to the correct URL. Or if you want to link to the .html version, then you need to rename aboutme.htm to aboutme.html

Hi Darin,

I'm not a newbie at html, but I have alredy tried changing aboutme.htm to aboutme.html, about_me.html and other names, but I feel my flash on the webapage is keeping the link from working properly. Has anyone ever heard of that? Any suggestions are very much apprecitaed for this problem from the home using the about me link doesn't work.

Thank you,

Jared

What do you mean with that the link isn't working properly? Nothing on that page except using the wrong URL could make the server throw a 404 error. That's what happens now.
http://jaredgingerich.com/aboutme.html
Just do what Darin said.

Hi Pandy,

At the moment I am enrolled in Video Game Design. I used to program html all the time back in high school, but I have become a little bit rusty. I took my online portfolio website which are the 2 attahced web pages and had a html professor at Stark State College examine and fix my code. This is a quote from my professor about my situation "man, this code almost makes me want to go back to college and learn to code a simple link, because this link is posed." I tried renaming the file and even loading it up off my desktop and it still refused to find the file.

I am serious and my code is really irritating me and I am unable to find anything wrong with it.
Thanks for any help.

Jared

Whatever you call the file, the link to it must use the same name in order to work. Currently the link points to http://jaredgingerich.com/aboutme.html which doesn't exist. http://jaredgingerich.com/aboutme.htm does exist.


No the link is broken anyway, all by itself.

So you did something else wrong. Let's forget your desktop for a while. Just go change the name of aboutme.htm to aboutme.html on the server. Please?

Wow, that is incredible it worked. I would have never thought of renaming infopage.html to aboutme.html would fix the link error. Thank you so much pandy! My last question on the main home page of my website 2 images of games that I created are not showing up. I started the game up and then clicked print screen; then loaded the image into paint and saved them as .jpg, where they are working on the desktop, but not on the internet. Any ideas?

Best regards,

Jared

We've been trying to tell you all along.



That WAS the link error...

As Darin said, either doing what you did now OR editing the link would have worked. Point is that the URL in the link must reflect the actual file name - EXACTLY. 'blah.htm' and 'blah.html' isn't the same file. You could have both side by side.

BTW you should decide what extension you want to use, htm or html. Makes things more orderly. I suggest html since it's more common and htm is an old MS relict.

Hey! Wait, what are you saying now? I didn't notice that you said...



Renaming infopage.html?

Thanks pandy very much for the help! I could hit myself for not realizing that minor error , although I thought a long while back internet explorer could read .htm and.html as the same file?

Any way, pandy would you know a reason why an internet host wouldn't be able to locate an image .jpg from a thumbnail folder on web server when the desktop could find it?

Thanks for the help everyone,

Jared

No, they are not the same file. Both will work, but that's not the same as them being the same.

You didn't answer. Surely you renamed aboutme.htm and not infopage.html? Otherwise it's very confusing indeed.




Same reason as with the HTML page. Wrong URL.

I think that what was intended was:



While we're about it, blah.htm, BLAH.HTM and Blah.htm are all different too, even though the world's favorite operating system may encourage the illusion that two or more of them are the same.

Yes. Thank you for spotting that. I corrected it above.