Site split into sub-sites - Help Needed!

[Muis60]

Now I got a message saying my file exceeded the forum's upload size

Greg

[steve.ledger]

Just make a copy of your file, delete all but one page that your having the problem, then attach that.

[Muis60]

I rebooted, refreshed and the link was still wrong. Then just a few minutes ago, my wife looked at the page and it worked which is weird. Then I once more refreshed and it then worked.

However, I created another sun-folder called 1970b for the remainder 4 albums and song list and when I did a "Preview" of this page in 'firefox" it showed the correct link. But once again, once uploaded it didn't work. I also noticed that the first page worked and second one didn't. So this error seems random - crazy but true!!

I will upload the web file for 1070b as it is just a duplication from 1970a and the main site!

Greg

[Muis60]

Here is the 1970b file

Greg

[Muis60]

Thanks sledger for your patience with me.... This is causing me grey hairs and so I can't imagine what I am causing you - LOL

[Muis60]

Just out of curiosity - Is this how my file structure should be... Main site with sub-folders?

Greg

[steve.ledger]

[1] You are using a presentation template rather a web template - was that deliberate?
This will render presentation navigate arrows and menu on mouse over at the lower left of the screen.



[2] If the file you attached is being uploaded to the /1970b directory (path) on your host the links to the root pages from the index.htm therein (bio.htm / gallery.htm / contact.htm / blog.htm / about.htm) should really be relative paths.
You have entered absolute paths

See ► http://webdesign.about.com/od/beginn.../aa040502a.htm

eg;


(The above relates only to how links from the index.htm in your 1970a and 1970b directories (paths) should be.)

[Muis60]

It should not have been a Presentation Template. This is my second design and both times I used a "Infrastructure Theme" and modified it!

My site is broken down so it will have many (not 100% sure of the number yet) sub-sites. On the main site it only has (index.htm / bio.htm / gallery.htm / contact.htm / blog.htm / about.htm) and it has a link for discography which has a dropdown menu for 1970 / 1980 / 1990 /2000.

Due to this artist only bringing out 8 albums in the 70's I decided to break it down so I have 4 albums per sub-site and called them 1970a and 1970b. So on the second site, the 1970a and 1970b would link back to the first site dropdown menu of discography 1970. 1970a is a index.htm page and it uses the same navbar that the main site uses and so on.

In the 1970a index.htm page I had to change the navbar from the local sub-site to link to the main site. Thus, HOME on 1970a is linked back to http://larrynormanlyrics and the navbar BIOGRAPHY is then http://larrynormanlyrics.com/bio.htm and so on.

On the main site when linking to the 1970b index.htm page it is http://larrynormanlyrics.com/1970a/index.htm and that would be the only link that would change on the main site until I get to 1980 / 1990 and 2000.

Yeah, the attachment I sent you had not yet been changed for bio / gallery etc.. so they would have come out all wrong.

The problem I was having is when linking back to the main sites index page (My main url) it was coming out double as explained in the beginning and I just could not understand why.

The attachment file I sent you was not a great example as it was not full functional as I hadn't yet linked it back to the main site.

I hope this all makes sense? as even I am getting confused

Anyway, that is basically the structure of my website. Because it will eventually have well over 600 pages, I had to break it down into many small sub sites as Xara WD MX got too overloaded after about 100 pages and gave "out of memory" errors.

I will check out the links you supplied and try and learn from them and get back if I still continue to have issues.

Thanks very much for being patient with me. I have used Xara products before for web designing but WD MX is so different from what I was used to back in the Webstyles 4 days.

Greg

[steve.ledger]

The problem I was having is when linking back to the main sites index page (My main url) it was coming out double as explained in the beginning and I just could not understand why.

See post #17

[Muis60]

Yep, that is what I was doing but it still was acting weirdly with a double link.

Since then I have got it to work properly and all seems fine now.

Thanks very much for your help and patience. Much appreciated.

Greg