Help The Technically Challenged

[Armstrongs]

Ok got that part, but what is a URL!! THANKS

Hi Irish8

This thread is a step by step guide, with screenshots

http://helpdesk.ebid.net/showthread.php?t=100959

Yvonne x

[kengillam]

URL stands for Universal Resource Locator.

[Irish8Sunshine]

Hi , will try and work on it Tommorow. Thanks for All Your Help Goodnight

[astral276]

Ok got that part, but what is a URL!! THANKS

A URL is basically a unique pointer to a resource. That can be a picture, a file, another web page, a program, etc., located somewhere on the internet. It is a bit like your name and home address in that it contains the information needed to allow you (the resource) to be located.

If you look at the top of your browser you should see a box with an entry that starts: http://helpdesk.ebid.net... That whole line is the url of the page you are looking at.

Your About page is at:

http://uk.three.ebid.net/perl/normal...heir-all-about

The underlining of the text above is the way browsers indicate that the text contains a url that links to somwhere else and that if you click on it your browser will be taken there.

How you express a url depends rather on what you are doing and how you are doing it. If you were just entering a url to a picture into a box such as eBid Gallery might ask you to supply you would just give a basic url such as:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/astral.project/temp/yukka.jpg

That may look a little like a path and filename on your computer - that's because it is doing the same job. Giving instructions on how to locate something. Though rather than on your computer disk drive it is somewhere out on the web.

If you were entering it as htlm code into one of your listings you might use something like:

<a target="_blank" href=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/astral.project/temp/yukka.jpg>My Yukka</a>

Which would display in a browser as: My Yukka - which when clicked would take you to the same place but is a bit more user friendly way of presenting it.


If you have a specific task you are trying to achieve then ask and all here will help if they can.

[Irish8Sunshine]

Thanks all, will be gone most of the day, but will check back for more advice later!