The most common way to make different pages on a site available to the user is to provide a navigation menu through which one can click through a site. Each page will have its own unique URL, of which there are two versions. One version is relative and can be used when accessing sites located on the same server. A relative URL is short and includes only a file name and file type. In contrast, an absolute URL is much longer and includes the name of the parent website. Absolute URLs are needed when referencing pages located externally (on a different server).
In this example, I have added a navigation menu in the form of an unordered list to each page on a server. The links in this menu lead to different pages within the same site. Each page is associated with a unique URL.
The HTML added to each script uses an href tag. The relative URLs are used for each page because the pages are linking to other pages on the same server. The HTML for the navigation menu is as follows:
The unordered list when viewed in the browser looks like this:
These pages can be accessed through the following links. Note that the index.html page can be accessed with or without including “index.html” in the absolute URL because this is the home page for the site:
http://mywebspace.quinnipiac.edu/zsqaiyumi/
http://mywebspace.quinnipiac.edu/zsqaiyumi/module4.html
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