Thread: Linking

Hi I'm new to web building. In the insert hyper pop-up got http and mailto sorted , but could someone please explain the others ie: file ftp an gopher. What are they for and what does one put in the 'url' box? Thanks. Blue Voda is great.

Most of the time you wont use the others. FTP is for linking one to an ftp server login.. Ive NEVER used the gopher one.. so no idea where you would use it.. but if you google it.. im sure you can find out.

Karen

Thanks, Karen you are a star but what does one put in the box for a file?
Alistair

What box and what file? If you wanted someone to ftp your site.. then youd put your site domain name / the folder

ftp://yoursite.com/downloads/

then they could download whatever was there... but.. they will also need a user and password.

Karen

In the hypher link pop upthe following shows:
Link type : http
file
ftp
etc
File name: ???
Its this file name that I am looking for to complete the picture.
Thanks again. It's nice to know that there is someone there to help.
Alyboy
PS: by the way I googled 'gopher as you suggested and got the info from 'navaldesign'. He advises that gopher is an old protocol for http.