Hi, So, I just signed up for this site http://www.designerpages.com/, where I can host my company's products. On my products page, I'm trying to link to my page here: http://www.foremostgroups.com/K&B/he.../bastille.html The problem is, when I type in a &, it changes it to & #38; so the page comes up with Error 404. When I try doing & it makes the link http://www.foremostgroups.com/K&.../bastille.html and this also comes up with 404. Does anyone have any ideas how I can do this so that it will do the & correctly?
It is a very bad idea to have the & character in your link... I highly suggest you change / remove it.
yeah, i realize that, but I don't really have a choice. we have so many backlinks to different pages in that folder, that I won't even be able to do all the redirects. the site was set up like that when i got here, but maybe in the future (when i'm not so busy) we'll be able to fix it.
It sounds like is it their system convering the char to its html value. There is not too much you can do about this... besides maybe make some javascript to rewrite the link when the end user views it. Are you able to upload javascript in the area that this link will be?
I'm not sure, probably not - that's not a bad idea though. I'll google how to make JS rewrite links (i'm not great with JS, but I understand the basic principles)