Since the server name was changed from www.austincc.edu to www.austincc.edu, many links need to be changed. If you have never edited the source code for a document, then changing all of these links will look like a daunting prospect. But, if you can edit the source code, this is a rather trivial process. Just call up the source code in a program that lets you edit it, then use "Replace" to find www.austincc.edu and replace it with www.austincc.edu.

If you need to have some files done, but don't feel like doing it yourself, send a message to ________, who will put you in touch with someone who can do this for you. (I can't promise to do this myself for everyone in the college, but I think the ACCNet helpdesk will be helping on this.)

Before you start doing things to any file, it's a good idea to make sure you have a backup. Just make a copy of your whole directory of web files and then fix things in that copy. As soon as you are sure it's all OK, then that copy becomes your real set of files.

On a PC, here are three possible ways to edit the source code for HTML.

1. In Word 97, call up your HTML document and then, in the "View" Menu, choose "Page Source". Then go to the "Edit" menu, choose "Replace" and then tell it to find every instance of www.austincc.edu and replace it with www.austincc.edu
2. If you can't figure out how to edit the source code from your word processing program, you need to use a "text editor" to call up your HTML document. In Windows, WordPad will do this. Open WordPad (usually found in your Start menu, under "Programs" and then under "Accessories"), open your document, and then use "Replace" as described above.
3. If you have lots of files to do, you might want to download and install a very nice (free) text editor called EditPad. It allows you to have multiple files open at once and do a "Find and Replace" command on all the open files at the same time. I have one directory with over 100 HTML files in it and did this to them all at once in under a minute. If you want to try this option, more detailed discussion is available.

Last updated June 3, 1999. Mary Parker. If you have suggestions for ways I could make this document more helpful, or for additional options I could describe (particularly for Macs or for other word processing programs on a PC) please send those to me.

When you're creating new documents with links to other documents on the ACC server, you might want to use "relative" links. Many of us use them for documents in the same directory, but some of us don't know that we can also use them for documents in other directories on the same server. In particular, if I have a document anywhere in my own directory, and I want to link to the file in the ACC schedule for summer classes at PIN, instead of using this link: http://www.austincc.edu/schedule/s9930/pin930fs.htm it will work just fine if you use the link /schedule/s9930/pin930fs.htm. Try it and see.

If you want to change all the links in a file efficiently from www.austincc.edu to www.austincc.edu, the easiest way to do it is to edit the "source code" for your HTML file and do a "find and replace". Here are several ways to do that. If you don't feel comfortable doing it yourself, ask______ for help. We can probably put you in touch with some people at ACC who can do this for all your files.

If you want to do this yourself, it would be a good idea to look at the source code for a few web documents just to see what they're like. Go to one of your documents on the web that has some of the incorrect links in it. Under the "View" menu of Netscape Navigator, choose "Page Source". Each of the entries after HREF= is a link. You'll see