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Posted by John Donnell
John Donnell
7,801 Points

General question about <a href=""></a>

I changed my logo link and portfolio links like this to stop it from having a double url for the main page, so instead of having www.example.com and www.example.com/index.html now I only have one www.example.com Is this okay? or is there some other way I should be doing this?

 <a href="/" id="logo">

      <h1>John Donnell</h1>

      <h2>Designer</h2>

  </a>

<nav>

<ul>

 <li><a href="/" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>

 <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>

 <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>

</ul>

</nav>

1 Answer

Gloria Dwomoh
Gloria Dwomoh
13,116 Points
Gloria Dwomoh
Gloria Dwomoh
13,116 Points

You actually need to have an index.html page. Your website won't work properly (if it actually does work) on most browsers without it. Does that work as it suppose to?

John Donnell
John Donnell
7,801 Points

Yea it still works, I still have a index.html file I just changed the links. The site works fine on all browsers I tried.

Gloria Dwomoh
Gloria Dwomoh
13,116 Points

When you click on... John Donell - Designer headers, does it load the homepage?

John Donnell
John Donnell
7,801 Points

www.john-r-donnell.com check it out it works. i was just seeing if there was a better way of doing it.

Gloria Dwomoh
Gloria Dwomoh
13,116 Points

Nice work! I think the way you did it, since it works, is the simplest way, and often the simple way is the best.

John Donnell
John Donnell
7,801 Points

Thank you, I noticed the double url when I made the site map and it had two links for the home page. I changed it like that and it worked.