adding a button to a Menu

[Pat_Appleson]

Hi, I'm using Dreamweaver 5 and I'm having a little trouble adding an addition Menu Button to an existing page.  Push it and it goes to another page on the site.

I copy and pasted, then changed the name and directory to goto the new page.  But, it doesn't go there.  Can anyone help?

"Dog Training" is the button I'm trying to add.

Below is what I've got, everything works except "Dog Training".

Many thanks, in advance.

pat

<div align="center">

              <table width="916" height="323" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background="images/rock024dkrBR2.jpg">

                <tr>

                  <td width="120"align="left" valign="top"  class="navCopyLeftSide" cellpadding="8">

                    <p align="center"><br />

                      <a href="../lodge.html">THE LODGE</a><br>

                    <br>

                    <a href="../spa.html">THE SPA</a><br />

                    <br>

                    <a href="../daycamp.html">OUR DAY <br />

                    CAMP</a><br>

                    <br>

                    <a href="../servicesFees.html">SERVICES &<br />

                    FEES</a><br>

                    <br>

                    <a href="../dogtraining.html">TRAINING<br />

                    INFORMATION</a><br>

                    <br>

                    <a href="../about.html">ABOUT</a><br>

                    <br>

                    <a href="../contact.html">CONTACT</a><br>

                    <br>

                    <a href="../index.html">HOME</a></p>

[Nancy OShea]

A link to your problem page online would be more productive than code snippets.  When you say DOG TRAINING, I don't see a menu item for that.

Is this it?

<a href="../dogtraining.html">TRAINING<br />

                    INFORMATION</a><br>

When you say it doesn't work, we don't know what that means.  It doesn't work locally?  Or it doesn't respond?  Or perhaps you neglected to upload the dogtraining.html page and you're getting a 404 error?

[Pat_Appleson]

Thanks for getting back so FAST!

Okay, the Menu Button I'm trying to get to work is labeled "Training Information"  when you push it, it supposed to goto a file named "DogTraining.html.

I've got it up at  Paw Tales Lodge & Day Spa - Hickory, NC

Thanks again,

Pat

[hans-g.]

Hi Pat,

I fear there could be a problem with <!-- InstanceEndEditable -->, BUT at the moment I can see you already realized Nancy's hint!

<a href="dogtraining.html">TRAINING<br />

                    INFORMATION</a><br>

Better safe than sorry!

Hans-Günter

[osgood_ · Accepted solution]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Pat+Appleson  wrote

Thanks for getting back so FAST!

Okay, the Menu Button I'm trying to get to work is labeled "Training Information"  when you push it, it supposed to goto a file named "DogTraining.html.

I've got it up at  Paw Tales Lodge & Day Spa - Hickory, NC

Thanks again,

Pat

You have lower case d & t for your link:

dogtraining.html

BUT the actual page is DogTraining.html (upper case D & T).

Change the link to upper case D & T or change the page name to lower case d & t - so both the link and page name match.

[Jon Fritz]

To build on what Os mentions...

In your local OS (Mac or Windows) case structure doesn't matter. A link to DogTRaiNing.html in the source code will go to DogTraining.html because they're the same file. You can't have two files with the same name in the same directory in those operating systems, no matter what their case structure is. For example, if you have a page called dogtraining.html and you save a new page to the same directory as DogTraining.html, it will overwrite the first.

Because of that, when you link to the wrong case structure in your local site, it will still bring up the right page and appear to function correctly. When you move your files to the server though, that can change. Many servers are case sensitive and DOGTRAINING.html, DogTraining.html and dogtraining.html are all going to be separate files, with different link paths in your html. Unless you have the exact case structure in the file as you have in the link, you'll see 404 File Not Found errors online, where the page "worked right" before you uploaded.

[Nancy OShea]

All computers should be cAsE sEnSiTiVe.

[Pat_Appleson]

Thanks to: Nancy, Jon, Hans & Ozzie!!

You know, it was late, I was tired. AND, it crossed my mind for a micro second, when I was typing file names.  I have to remember, to pretend that everything is still DOS and has to be lower case.  I've had video problems in the past, when Mr. Gates said, "sure, now you can type 256 letter file names, etc".  Keep 'em to eight.xxx Stupid!

So, that was it. drop the case to all lower and pretend it's 1981.

Thanks, everybody.  And if you ever need any info on electronic, A/V circuit design or problems, ping me.  Maybe I can help. (grin)

[Nancy OShea]

If you use the link field in your Properties panel to select pages,  you won't have these problems.

[Pat_Appleson]

Thanks!  I'll do that next time.

And thanks again for your help and quick response.

Best Regards

Pat