neocon--
Should the opportunity present itself, I'll bear it in mind.
And, in the belief that confession is good for the soul, I'll extend the same opportunity to Mr. Reagan.
ian
*OT*
Congratulations on learning how to hyperlink. It's time for lesson two. An earlier post of yours contained a faulty link. You were trying to direct us to a Feder column, but only pointed us to the web site where it was posted. The problem arises when the web site runs frames -- recognizable, usually, by an unchanging logo, menu bar or index running along the left side and/or top of your screen on all pages of the site. You'll soon learn to recognize the difference between frame / non-frame sites -- you may already have.
As I said, the frame stays in place even as you click through the various pages on the site. As such, the URL in the address bar of your browser never changes, always showing the site's main address. This is true even though the web site has a separate URL from the page showing in the center of your screen.
Think of this in terms of dialing a phone number, reaching a switchboard and requesting a particular extension. Were someone else to hit redial on the phone, they'd get no farther than the operator and have to try to hunt down the party they were trying to reach. Just so with a link to the host site of a framed page.
This can also cause problems in saving a frmaed page to your bookmarks. In some cases, if you try to set a bookmark through the button on your toolbar, you'll only mark the host site. When you try to return, you'll have to track down the page you meant to save. Frustrating, sometimes futile, that.
So, here's how to get the URL of the page within the frame. I'll give (easy) directions for both MS Internet Explorer (IE) and Netscape (NS) running under Windows 95. This should probably approximate the procedure for just about every platform, but should you run into trouble with your particular OS, let me know.
1. Having loaded the page you want to link, position your cursor over it, i.e. within the frame, pointing at your desired destination.
2. Right click your mouse or touchpad. In both IE and NS, a pop-up menu will appear.
3. Select "Properties" (IE) or "Internet Shortcut (NS).
4. You'll now see the correct URL for the framed page, which you can then cut and paste.
For the Feder column (yes, I think I found it) the correct URL is:
rt66.com
As opposed to the main page URL -- the one you linked -- which remains showing in the address bar:
rt66.com
To set a bookmark, follow steps 1 and 2 to the pop-up menu, then click "Add to Favorites" (IE) or "Add Bookmark" (NS).
There are keypad shortcuts you could learn, but save that until you've recovered from the headache I just gave you. And until you've run down that EP poll article for Johnathan.
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