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Topic: Store Map and Absolute Paths in header / footer

Posted By: Conan
Subject: Store Map and Absolute Paths in header / footer
Date Posted: 21-August-2009 at 4:47pm

I am having an issue with my custom header / footer template elements during generation of the HTML store map.

all the root relative paths that are coded in my header / footer are being rewritten incorrectly... for example a link to an image coded as "/images/imagename.jpg" is being transformed into

http://dev.wallpaperforwindows.com/pc//images/template_07.jpg
http:// -

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Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 21-August-2009 at 5:15pm

The header/footer in the PC folder must reference images that are AT or BELOW the PC folder. Referencing the image relative to the root won't work.

If you have any images in a root folder, you need to move or copy the images to the /pc/images (or better yet, something such as /pc/images/site-graphics/) folder. Then, reference the images without a leading /.

For example, the image on your left nav needs to be referenced as:

These would also work:

This will not work as you have discovered:

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Posted By: Conan
Date Posted: 21-August-2009 at 5:15pm

I fixed it. go me.

for some reason it is putting two
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
in the head but i can handle that.

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