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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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