How do I link to existing pages?
Sometimes you will want to link to pages that exist outside of a SiteGrinder build. These might be pages built by SiteGrinder earlier, pages that have yet to be built, pages built with other tools, or pages that already exist on the web.
You can accomplish this with file links or with URL links.
1. Using File Links
SiteGrinder's Buttons Panel allows you to specify what your buttons link to. One of the link styles you can choose is "File". When you choose this style you can select a file that exists somewhere on your local disk that you want the selected button to link to. SiteGrinder will automatically create a "relative" link to this file. This means you must ensure that the file is in the same location on your site relative to the folder you are building to as it is on your hard drive. In other words the layout of the site's html files and directories on your hard drive must match the way they are organized on your web server. If they don't then the link will work locally but fail once you upload your SiteGrinder pages.
2. Using URL Links
You can use URLs that link to your pre-existing pages by typing them into -link and -links layers as well as using the "URL" link style in the Buttons Panel of SiteGrinder's user interface. You can use absolute fully spelled out URLs (starting with "http://www.yoursitenamehere.com") which have the advantage of always working as long as your site's name doesn't change. You can also type in a relative link, which has the advantage of working as long as your directory organization remains the same.