RE: Don't want absolute filespec

["Laurel Hickey" <lhickey -at- 2morrow -dot- bc -dot- ca>]

What are you making the webpage with in the first place. From what you
describe, it sounds like you're saving a webpage from off the Internet
because that's what IE does when you do that.

In normal webpage development, the images and css and whatever DO NOT go
into a folder named for the page. They go into logical directories that
usually serve the whole site or specific areas or directories of the site.
They are named incredibly original names like "images" and "css" and "media"
and so forth.

Windows isn't designed to keep track of webpage relative links or links
relative to the root of a domain. It is a desktop OS and likes links to
refer to the various drives it sees. It's how it keeps track of things.

A website development tool like Dreamweaver lets you move thing around
within its environment AND maintains relative and domain links cause that's
what it's designed to do. It provides a buffer between what you are working
on and how Windows interacts with files. I believe a CD authoring program
does much the same thing in that respect.

If you made the pages in something like Notepad, then you should have the
originals on your desktop somewhere and these can be loaded onto the CD. If
they were done by someone else and then loaded up to your server or shared
server, then either get the originals from that person or use a free ftp
program to go and grab them from off the Internet. The original relationship
between the files that make up the displayed page will still be there. There
shouldn't be any need to move or rename them. If you absolutely have to do
either outside the environment of a decent web authoring tool, then
understand that you'll have to check the links in Notepad. If they do get
messed up, remember "find and replace" is pretty useful especially when the
'relative' damage should be pretty consistent ;-).

If you made the pages using an online editing tool (like with some community
pages), then when you save them to your desktop, IE makes the directory as
you described. If at all possible, don't rename and don't move your files.
And don't let Windows be too "helpful". See above.

Good luck.

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Laurel Hickey
2morrow writing & document design
lhickey -at- 2morrow -dot- bc -dot- ca
http://www.2morrow.bc.ca


Disclaimer: I don't have any web-authoring tools, and probably 
won't for a while.

If an html page has some gifs and stylesheets, etc., they all 
go in a directory with the same name as the page, so Windows 
helps you to keep them together when moving, copying, etc. Cool.

If you try to rename in Windows, Windows warns you to preserve 
the internal links by opening the page in IE and doing Save as...

Unfortunately, when you Save as..., IE finds any local links 
inside your page (such as to PDF and readme files in the same 
directory, and turns them into fully qualified absolute filespecs 
like:


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