Posted by David Segall on 12/31/06 18:01

MalcolmP <please@nospam.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>Apologies if this is off topic for this group,
>I am sure you knowlegeable people will either know the answer or point me
>to the right group ! Thanks :-
>
>I have locally on my HDrive a draft website, all handcrafted in fairly
>simple HTML in notepad (I'm still learning !) and all contained in a
>hierarchy under a 'master' folder which contains the index page (ie. all
>locally referenced)
>Is there a method/program that I can use to check that all the linked pages
>and pictures exist in the right folders/subfolders and etc ?
>ie. a local spider I suppose.
>
>I have Googled for link checkers but they all seem to be for checking the
>website when it is 'live' on the internet, not locally on one's own HDrive.
I use Dreamweaver <http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/> which
checks the links as you specify them. So, if you specify the link as
images/mypicture.gif that is what it checks, relative to the "current"
page wherever it is. If you specify the link as
http://www.ibm.com/index.html then that is what it checks. Dreamweaver
is relatively expensive and is much more than a link checker but you
can download the free trial and check your links. I am surprised that
other desktop link checkers don't work in the same way.

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