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> I created a web with MS Publisher2003 and uploaded it ok working fine,
> but with web forwarding the links do not work. I contacted Simply.com
> who do my web forwarding and they say there there are no A HREF
> statements (links).
> I also imported the web into Frontpage 2003 where I cannot edit
> properly.
>
> This: (web forwarded) no links working
> http://www.directorscut.me.uk/
>
> This: working fine
> http://freespace.virgin.net/directors.cut
>
> Help!!
> Peter

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> This is because you are linking to pages that aren't there.
> Since you don't actually have the pages on http://www.directorscut.me.uk/
> that you are linking to the links to such pages fail.
>
> I believe you are a little confused in what you are doing, you say you are
> using forwarding yet you are using framing. You use one or the other.
>
> If you are doing forwarding that means that one domain name is forwarded to
> another domain name. The first domain name has no physical presence and thus
> no page. The second domain loads and runs. For example -
> www.davidbartosik.org and www.davidbartosik.net have no physical presence,
> they forward to the real site of www.davidbartosik.com
>
> If you do a forward you have no issue as the real site is the destination
> and runs.
>
> When I visit http://www.directorscut.me.uk/
> I do not see a forward, I see framing.
> You have a physical page on that domain that frames the actual page over at
> http://freespace.virgin.net/directors.cut
> And since the visitor is actually on the second domain none of the links
> work because the other pages aren't on that domain that the relative links
> point to.
> So if you are framing the first domain than you need to add more frame pages
> or change your links to absolute urls so you always point back to the first
> domain explicitly.
>
> I strongly recommend against moving Pub pages into FP and I recommend
> against editing Publisher made html files.
>
> My site has more info on web page building with publisher and in general.
>
>

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