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Have NOTHING displayed but my domain name in the address bar

Do not display the path of my site

         

kallenes

9:53 pm on Jan 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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If it is possible, which i think it is ... as i have seen it on some sites... and, i have looked but to no avail, for maybe a script that _
Will not display the PATH as one moves within my site. eg. if they were to goto contact.htm, i don't want them to see the contact.htm. Only to see www.mydomainname.com
thanx

RonPK

10:31 pm on Jan 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Why would you want that, I wonder. You can use frames if you really find this necessary; both framesets and inline frames will do.

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, by the way!

TGecho

1:19 am on Jan 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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There are a lot of problems with doing that sort of thing. What if someone wants to email a link to particular page, or link to a page from an outside site?

whoisgregg

3:46 pm on Jan 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Using frames would not prevent users from getting a direct URL to a particular page. If I am using Google's image search, it loads the original page for an image in a frame... all I do is right-click the original page and select "load frame in new window" and bam, there's the url.

jomaxx

5:39 pm on Jan 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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What you are suggesting is very bad design. It's non-standard, it's confusing, it's easily circumvented, and it will make it less likely people will bookmark or link to your website. Unless you have a very good reason for doing this, I would agree with everyone else here and recommend dropping the idea.

P.S. Simply wanting everyone to come in to your website via the front door is not a good reason.

thehittmann

5:57 pm on Jan 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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....and on the other hand

what you want to do is called url cloaking, this feature can normally be purchased by your domain provider for an extra fee.

robert adams

6:49 pm on Jan 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

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create a folder for each page, name the page index.html and then they only have to go to the folder path.

mysite.com/index.html
mysite.com/folder1/index.html
mysite.com/folder2/index.html

they will only see
mysite.com/
mysite.com/folder1/
mysite.com/folder2/

luck,
robert

PatrickDeese

6:55 pm on Jan 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

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It is accomplished by using a 100% frameset, and all pages from the site (and any links that do not open in a window) will show the domain name hosting the frameset as the URL.

There are about 10 Billion reasons why I would recommend not doing that, the main (and perhaps most important one) is that people wouldn't be able to deep link to your site.