I don't know about root-relative links for a site being put on CD. The
browser will be looking for the links starting from the root of the hard
drive.


--
Sonja Ray

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The function of government is to protect me from others. It's up to me,
thank you, to protect me from me.



> From: Arnold Gregory <arnold.gregory@erau.edu>
> Reply-To: <dreamweaver@lists.blueworld.com>
> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 15:21:49 -0400
> To: <dreamweaver@lists.blueworld.com>
> Subject: Re: website section on cd
>
> Hi Judy,
>
> Nice to run into someone else dealing with a University website.
>
> Root relative links should be fine. You are correct that absolute URLs
> would try to go to the "live site". I use root relative links all the time
> especially in includes where I don't know how deep in the directory
> structure it may be called. They are relative to the root of what every
> directory structure they are in.
>
> There is some controversy over the autorun issue. Some argue that you should
> not take over a user's computer... others don't want to count on users being
> able to launch the cd. We do use autorun on our Catalog cd. It is a simple
> text file. Don't remember exactly but it is something like:
>
> [Autorun]
> Run1=IntroWin.exe
>
>
> Arn
>
>
>
> On 5/4/04 12:55 PM, "Judy Kiel" <jkiel@aoce.utah.edu> wrote:
>
>> well, now I need to put a section of our website onto cd... couple of
>> questions about that...
>>
>> Is there a quick way to change all root-relative links into
>> document/page-relative links, within the site? I tried the Link > Change
>> Link Sitewide command, but got the message that "both links must be either
>> absolute (http, mailto, etc.) or root-relative (/dir/file.htm)."
>>
>> I don't want absolute (do I?), won't that take the user to the live site?
>> Should I just use search/replace?
>>
>> Should I worry about making an autorun file? at the very least, a "readme"
>> file? How difficult is it to make this autorun (.inf I think) file on a Mac?
>>
>> I searched the Blueworld and Macromedia sites, but still wondered about
>> these...
>> Other suggestions welcome too! TIA!
>>
>> *******
>> Judy Kiel
>> Continuing Education. University of Utah
>> http://continue.utah.edu
>> Photographs: http://www.jkiel.com
>>
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>>
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