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How To Avoid Ghost Links In Building Your Website
By: Stephen Condren
When you are creating Website and working with Web pages it is important that you take notes and mark all of the articles and files that you make. Mark these on paper so that you can develop a check-off list.
For the beginner it can become very confusing to sort out all of the links assigned to different files. Make sure that when you move files around that you also remove the link that is behind. These links are invisible and you do not see them when you clear the file.
You will notice them only when it is too late and you have a chain of broken links to deal with. You do not want broken links on your site because there are difficult to find and fix. You want to spend your time on the site enhancing it not fixing it.
Just be sure that each time after you move or delete a file that you check the blank spot that it was in for any traces of a link. The link will show in the link line. Your software will notify you that if you delete this file the following links will be affected. Stop at that point and check each link that is listed. You will be surprised to find links to files that you had not idea about.
It is always best to stop and read any alerts and if you are not sure it is best to pick cancel to avoid long term errors.
I was born and raised on the south side of Chicago in Hyde Park Township, near the University of Chicago. As I child I was always drawing and painting. My father owned an art supply company, Favor Ruhl & Watson, where I was able to get all that I needed to progress in my work. I have always enjoyed portraiture and landscape painting. In High School (Naperville Central High School) I took Drafting from Mr. Pierce. I quickly grasped the principles of perspective and drafting and hence made a career with both Fine Art and Architectural Renderings. In the mid 1970's I joined the US Navy and was stationed on board the USS Midway, CV-41. The Midway was home ported in Yokosuka, Japan (A suburb of Tokyo). While in service I traveled all over Asia including such countries as Korea, China, Philippines, Singapore, Pakistan, Hong Kong, and Japan. While in Japan I learned Japanese. I speak German and Spanish as well. |  |
