Cloaking problems...

[Barber_91]

In a nutshell I'm having a helluva time getting web cloaking to work for me.

The first page is cloaked, but as soon as you navigate into my site the adress goes back to the original crappy address. I emailed the people who offer the cloaking and they said "make sure you hard code your links along with the target attribute, EXAMPLE: "

<a href="http://www.abcde.com/links/html" target="_top">
Well I'm using Flash buttons in Dreamweaver so I can't hardcode the information in. I had to enter the above information in the buttons PROPERTIES.

Basically, how do I set this up so that my web site will look something like this:

Example
www.abcdef.com = www.abc.com
www.abcdef.com/faq = www.abc.com/faq
and SO ON....

Thanks in advance if you can help! =)

[the_creator]

All thats happening when you move to the next page and you revert back to the 'crappy address' is that your links are telling your browser to break out of the frameset that is created by the cloaking company, so "target=_top" is telling that when you link to the next page is that u want to stay in a frameset, so really you are never changing page when moving through links your just changing frame, so therefore your address bar will allways have to display, abc.com, either that or you can break out of the frameset and display abcdef.com/faq. the only way that you're going to be able to display abc.com/faq is by changing your abc domain to point to your hosting or if your hosting cant do that get new hosting! hope this helps, the creator.

[DavidP]

the_creator is mostly right here. However, some redirection services (the ones I'm using these days at least) will merrily redirect subdirectories and pages (eg: www.abc.com/faq) and so forth.

This means that instead of:

<a href="http://www.abcde.com/links/html" target="_top">

You might want to go with:

<a href="http://www.abc.com/links/html" target="_top">

Keep in mind though that while this preserves the illusion of you not having a framed site and makes it easier for your users to bookmark deep portions of your site, it means two rounds of requests for each page viewed - one to load the frame and then one to load the actual page. In my experience this can make a site intolerably slow.