Relative location of images

[Gary]

Right i've recently set up my server to point any invalid pages within my
domain (404 errors) to my own error page.

Try it out for yourself at:

www.hyppocampus.co.uk

www.hyppocampus.co.uk/silly.html for example should send you to my error
page.

The problem comes in when somebody might type:

www.hyppocampus.co.uk/silly/silly.html

It goes to my error page but the images are not present due to incorrect
relative referencing. I somehow need to reference to my images in an
absolute manner. I'd rather not do this as
www.hyppocampus.co.uk/images/menu.gif if you see what i mean. Id rather do
it just from the root directory but im not quite sure how this works....
especially since im using the same code for my menu for all pages. Get me?

 

[Richard]

Right i've recently set up my server to point any invalid pages within my
domain (404 errors) to my own error page.

I wouldn't go to that extreme of nit pickin.
what if I typed in "dilly", "willy","filly"?
If the page don't exist, their own browser will let them know.
By going to that extreme, you're just wasting bandwidth.

 

[Richard]

You obviously know nothing at all about selling yourself or your
products/services on the web !!

If a user hits a none existstant page on your site you have 2 options :-

A. Let his browser tell him your site sucks and let him go elsewhere ...
or
B. Use a custom 404 page to direct him to your index page or some other
page on your site..

Why do you think that delivering a custom 404 page and keeping a visitor on
your site is a waste of bandwidth??

So my host doesn't have the capability of working with nonexistant pages.
I'm supposed to think of all the zillions of possibilites and redirect?
The way I see it, if the user is going in through a back door, I have to ask
myself, why?
Is he looking for a way to hack my site?
Or is he just out on a fishing trip to see what else I might have that he
won't have to pay for.
I can always check the stats and see what pages were called on and work from
there..
Or I can just put in a simple redirect to the home page.