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Kung
Fu Power Tip Home:
This page should help answer the questions:
How do I tell you what page I want changed?
What is a URL?
Can I put slashes spaces question marks or other non-alpha-numeric characters
in a file name?
Target Audience: New computer users, people who are new to web development.
Below is an excerpt from an email I sent a client to explain what could
be deduced from looking at a link, or URL.
############# Email Below... #############
Here is a link the revised face I put on the site.
http://www.adamsilverphoto.com/scouting.php
Something to note from the above link are the slashes "(/)".
The first 2, the double slashes, show what protocol to use. In this case,
"http://" or Hypertext Transfer Protocol. There are many other
protocol types, but the most common ones are "http://" and "ftp://",
with http:// being the most common by far and the basic web protocol.
These are used in a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or link to separate
directories (also called folders). So, what we can gather from the above
link is that there is a site available in Hypertext Transfer Protocol
"http://", named "www.adamsilver.com", and a file
named "scouting.php".
A more complex link is this:
http://www.adamsilverphoto.com/target/12922_eveningside/thumbs/dscn2933.jpg.htm
From this we see that there is a site "www.adamsilver.com",
a folder named "target", a folder named "12922_eveningside",
a folder named "thumbs", and a file named dscn2933.jpg.htm.
Sorry, sometimes I get carried away. :) LOL
Check out this alternate banner at:
http://www.adamsilverphoto.com/travel.php
Next, just click in the Address bar (a single click, not a double-click),
and all the text of the url will be selected in the Address Bar. Then
hit Command+C to copy it, and switch to your email app and hit Command+V
to paste it. That's gotta be easier than snapshotting and e-mailing 6
files to describe the 6 hero photos.
And that is the power user tip for the day. :)
############# End of mail #############
If you got anything out of this, you might want to read about the address
bar.
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Thus spake the master programmer:
``After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.''
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