Creating Links between RedGage pages
Creating Links between RedGage pages
Do you have broken links from your RedGage blog to a RG photo page or user profile? Use these simple tricks to make working links between RG pages.
1. Use "Share This" to get the correct link
Clipping the page URL from the browser address bar may cause a problem with the link.
Look at the "Full Link:" when you click on the button to Share This. This Full Link may be different than the URL in the browser address bar. This is how RedGage keeps track of traffic between pages (analytics). When you click on a link from one RG page to another, the tracking code #rf: is added to the address, followed by the URL of the new page.
Using the Full Link from the Share This button will avoid problems with the address than can happen when cutting and pasting the URL directly from the browser address bar.
2. Use relative links between RedGage pages
Even using the Full Link between RedGage pages may cause a problem.
A relative link from a RG blog page to a RG photo page looks like this:
<a href="../../photos/USER/PAGE-TITLE.html">LINK-TEXT</a>
In essence, the relative link ../../ climbs two steps up the file system at RedGage, out of the /blogs/USER subdirectory, and then moves two steps down, into the /photos/USER subdirectory.
For example: On the blog page http://www.redgage.com/blogs/dotpattern/modern-architecture-in-barcelona.html
A relative link to a photo page looks like this:
<a href="../../photos/dotpattern/mercat-santa-caterina-barcelona-spain.html">LINK-TEXT</a>
The relative link climbs up two steps from the /blogs/USER subdirectory and then back down two steps into the /photos/USER subdirectory.
Relative links with the link button
Update: Relative links must be added "by hand" to RedGage blogs using the HTML button in the text editor (the link button will add html:// as a prefix to the relative link, which will not work correctly).
Read the RedGage Blog Tutorial for more information
Extra: Using the "Full Link" will make the page load faster at RedGage, without having to translate the "Short Link" into the complete URL.
