Thank you all for your kind help
and yes i am sorry for posting it in more than one area. just i wanted a quick reply - i won't do this again promise. 🙁
oh and the headers and footers one is resolved thanks just having problems with sessions at the moment 🙁
incase any of you would like to help, i know some of you probably won't now 🙁 but
in my directory have a main folder with all files in it.
and have a sub directory called (poll)
on my homepage i have links to pages
<a href="logout.php">Logout</a><br />
<a href="change_password.php">Change Password</a><br />
<a href="Research.php">Research Findings</a><br />
<a href="forum.php">Forum</a><br />
<a href="guestbook2.php">Guestbook</a><br />
<a href="view_users.php">Members</a><br />
<a href="poll/vote.php">Poll</a><br />
but by putting the poll/vote in it to get that working it messes the rest of the links up its ok by clicking of them all once but after the first time it goes for example like this http://localhost/shopbots/poll/view_users.php
when should be
http://localhost/shopbots/view_users.php
can someone please explain this to me? or tell me what im doing wrong.