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Step Four: Web Address: Absolute Links

There are two ways of typing a web address: Absolute or Relative. Absolute means the full URL of the page. This page is:

http://www.webwasp.co.uk/tutorials/a15-hyperlink/index.php

The absolute URL of the webwasp home page is:

http://www.webwasp.co.uk/

When you are linking to a web page on a site other than your own use the full web address or in the jargon: Absolute URL. So if I wanted to link to Google I would type: http://www.google.com/

If you use an absolute address it does not matter where your computer is located it will always find the web page.

In the previous section I typed in an absolute address: http://www.webwasp.co.uk/ I did this so that the link will still work when you download the file to your computer. If I typed a relative address it would work on this page, but not when you down loaded the file.

Definition: You may have seen http:// in a web address. It stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. In normal English it means the 'language' spoken between computers on the Internet.

Definition: www stands for World Wide Web. Normally you would type this.

Tip: With an absolute address the best thing to do is look at the page in your web browser. For example this page looks like this:

The URL is clearly visible in the Address line. Copying it eliminates typing errors.

If you right click (Mac: Ctrl click) on the Address in your Web Browser you can copy the link directly. Then return to Flash and paste it into the Actions Panel: Ctrl V