in designing a site, I was wondering how you people prefer to do it,is there a better way between the 2?

1: http://www.domainname.com/thelink"

2: /thelink

which would you use and why.

I wouldn't bother putting the full domain name in. It makes your files bigger and there is simply no need.

It also makes it much easier to test locally.

For my personal site, i prefer a trick like http://Hello-How-are you- today@IP (base 16 coding) or http://news@IP. :)

debug I don't quite understand what your saying, could you explain it in a bit more detail.

/thelink

Originally posted by Lippy
debug I don't quite understand what your saying, could you explain it in a bit more detail.

Sorry, you are talking about designing a web site. I am talking about to convert the IP in base 16:

By example:

12.34.45.678 = 12 x 16777216 + 34 x 65536 + etc

that's a funny IP address 12.34.45.678 hehe too bad you couldn't have larger numbers like this.

I would rather use the \link.

I ran into some problems when the domain name changed once and I had to go through the code and change all the links.

Try not to use the http:\\domain.com\happydays\goodtimes\friends.php

sorry /link hehe me bad, windows guy...

"/thelink" is your best bet. You are dealing with a portability issue here. If you ever want to move the site or a portion of it to a different domain or directory you don't want to waste time tediously hunting and pecking through your script changing all the full domain references.....

....I suppose you could do a find and replace however. But why would you want to deal with that anyway.

Using a relative path is the way to go.

;)

- D

I agree with dTuesday, a relative link is the better of the two choices. Absoultes really become a pain later on.