Quick Tip - Use Absolute URL’s

23 November, 2007 - Quick Tips, Web Design - 2 Comments

I often come across small things that need noting but are not worthy of a detailed blog post. As a result, I introduce my Quick Tip series.

Quick tips will be short posts noting things that can potentially make a big difference to your online marketing and blogging efforts, but are not so significant that a detailed blog post can or should be written.

Don’t worry, you’re not going to be ducking for cover past piles of quick tips. I imagine I’ll post just one a week at the most.

Use Absolute URL’s

The first quick tip is to use absolute URL’s in your blog posts when calling images. All too often I see bloggers who try to call an image like this:

<img src=”/images/image.gif” alt=”Image Name”>

That is all well and good and will work on your Web site, but when somebody is reading that post in their feed reader, the image won’t appear. Your feed reader doesn’t know what domain name to look at when trying to find that image. As a result, you end up with a broken image.

The solution is simple. Use absolute URL’s. An absolute URL means you should include the domain name in the image tag. So your image would now look like this:

<img src=”http://www.yourdomain.com/images/image.gif” alt=”Image Name”>

When you include the domain name, your readers will see the images when reading the post via the RSS feed.

It’s a simple tip that can save some embarrassment. :)

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Posted on 23 November, 2007 by Jamie Harrop
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Comment by Robert Subscribed to comments via email
2007-11-24 08:02:04

Nice tip. Didn’t really think of that.

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Comment by ThoughtSponge
2007-11-29 03:52:26

Thanks for the tip. I’m not sure which way I was calling images, but this will definitely save me some time.

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