help with running sites from CD

[Yvonne Reynolds]

Hello,

I am sorry to call upon the list again so soon, but this problem has me stumped.

We have 2 websites ( lets call them AA and BB).  We use frames on both.  I use Dreamwever.   I am needing to cut the sites to run on CD for a demonstration.  The sites are linked at several points.  When designed for the web, the full url is given for these links.  e.g. http://www.AA.com/index.html for links to  the home page of AA from site BB.  

I have  made copies of the sites to adapt for the CD .  I changed the full urls of the cross site links to relative paths as I cannot be sure of the CD drive they will be running from.   For example the path to the homepage of AA from BB is just ../AA/index.html.   This works perfectly for most pages, but with most of those running in frames, the browser appears to insert the folder/directory of the home site into  the path.  For example where I have typed ../AA/index.html, it appears in the browser address bar when running from the CD as D:/BB/AA/index.html - which of course it cannot find.  What is even weirder is that it does not do this consistently. 

I know this seems crazy - browsers should not insert things.  What can I be doing wrong?  I have tried changing the target from top to blank- it doesn't help.  I have tried checking the code in Notepad, to get away from Dreamweaver, but the source code on the CD looks fine - it seems that this is something the browser is doing.  I have tried in 2 browsers- both are doing this.

Please can anyone shed any light?

Thanks in anticipation,
Yvonne


Yvonne Reynolds
Website Manager
National Botanical Institute
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