Thread: linking to other created pages

i am trying to link my home page to my other pages. it is working with single word links such as photos. but cant get it to work with double words such as contact us.
how do i set up the link? i have tried
http://www.mysite.co.uk/contactus.html
http://www.mysite.co.uk/contact-us.html
http://www.mysite.co.uk/contact_us.html (underscore)
http://www.mysite.co.uk/contact us.html (space)

none work

Well... what is your contact page called????

contact us

As I thought!.... rename your page WITHOUT a space.

e.g.

contact
contactus
contact_us
enquiries

Republish the page

Change your link accordingly.

Remove the old 'contact us' page off the server

:) i had just started doing that as i cottoned on to where you were going, cheers for that, silly me :)

i have changed the name to contactus changed all of the links accordingly, its all in lower case and still no luck?
doing this also makes my link box as conactus rather than contact us.

have you published the page as 'contactus'?

If you have, send me the url of your site that has a link to your contact page please.

site is www.amarokkleekai.co.uk
its about us i have publish. i have just published home and about us at the minute as not doing the others til i get these right.
is this all you need??

Have you published 'contactus' ?

I dont think you have.

You also have the link to your contact page on your site home page still as contact_us

which one is it?

Ashwood, you cannot have a space in any web page. Your link looks for a page named "aboutus" but your page is actually named "about us." The web automatically puts a symbol in the space, so your page ends up looking like this: http://www.amarokkleekai.co.uk/about%20us.html

That %20 symbol will confuse the situation big time, so republish your page (and any other) with NO spaces. You can use underscores if you like: "about_us."

yeah i have done that, it is the about us link i am working on not contact us.
i have hyperlinked it to the to http://www.amarokkleekai.co.uk/home.html
and i have the click on box on the home page as http://www.amarokkleekai.co.uk/aboutus.html and it is named as aboutus

hmmm... I think we need to start from the beginning here...

You cannot name your homepage 'home' it must be 'index'

You currently have TWO home pages

ok i have named it index now, i do i get rid of pages i have published. as i have published the same pages numerous times

Originally Posted by ashleywood.ash

ok i have named it index now, i do i get rid of pages i have published. as i have published the same pages numerous times

Personally, from what I see so far, I am very concerned that your server is in a bit of a mess (more than likely).

I would remove every page off your server and start again.

how do i remove pages from server?

I had a vision that would be the next question LOL...

Ok... I really need to write this down somewhere, the amount of times I've answered this question...

BlueVoda > Tools > FTP Manager

Sign in

Two panes, left and right.

Left side is files on your PC

Right side is your server.

Go down the right hand list and delete PAGES only.

They will more than likely have the IE symbol on them.

is this the same as my publishing username and password because if it is it is not letting me sign in.
it says ftp server failed 530 login authentication failed

ignore last

Yes it is the same.. EXACTLY the same

Check IP address is correct (Some look very similar)

Check username is correct

Check Password is correct

then when you have done that and are happy all is ok... Check again!!

no ie files but loads of bv files

ok, all those bv files are pages, they can all be deleted.

P.S. I take no responsibilty for your actions mind! I am only advising you. So just ensure you delete nothing more than the pages.

ok no worries, on this plus side i have sorted all the problems now, my links are eventually working. :)
thanks for all your help

You're Welcome