Website Fixed!
Thanks to my genius, the website is now fixed. And it was not a simple fix by any means. I changed it so that it would stay stable.
For anyone who did not get to check it out in its horrible state, here is a photo:
A tip to all web-designers whether you are on a FIRST team or not: Organise your files in folders and always link properly.
It is professional to link to your content via the server, not via an Internet URL.
Dont do: <img src="http://www.team1504.com/media/team/img/penguin.png" />
Do: <img src="media/img/penguin.png" />
Why?
- Because sometimes the web browser the user is using may be filtered so they cannot view the content that is linked because the browser searched for that content as if it were on the Internet, not on the server.
- The majority of a server is private. Unless you put specific permissions on a file, the user usually cannot see it alone. When one accesses content on the web via the Internet, the server that hosts the site detects the user as foreign and displays what is public. Whereas if the src of the content is
/media/img/penguin.png,it sees that the site is accessing the content. - Having http://…. is just not clean and is therefore inefficient web design.
Of course, no one wants you to download the entire FIRST site, upload it to your server, and link to it, because that would be impossible (unless you had permission and access to the root of their server) and a waste of server space. For external content that is not downloadable, you can link to it via its Internet URL.
The inclusion of the full directory (“http://www.team1504.com/”) in the url depends on the situation. I usually use short ones, as it allows the whole site to be copied to offline and it is much cleaner. However, if full URLs are used, a single page can be copied off of the server and it will still work (with internet connection). This is not worth it often, but it certainly is occasionally. And by no means should one ever mix long URLs and relative ones to the same site.
-If firefox sees that you are linking to the directory that you’re already in, will it still do a DNS lookup and make a second request to the server? Perhaps if I embedded a copy of a page in itself, and did this for about 15 recursions there could be noticeable load-time if this was true.
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