Unless your site is only one page, I don't see how that is possible. I really don't know though. Can anybody confirm this?

Why do you want to do that anyways?

I know its possible cause i seen it before.
and the person I am doing the page for wants it this way. :)

Oh...I understand then. Welcome to the boards by the way. Somebody who knows what they are talking about should be by shortly.... ;)

The only way I know would be frames - if the frameset is 100% and 0% you don't see any evidence that the page is a frameset unless you view source.

Maybe there's some server side thing that could be done, but it seems very unlikely to me.

Oh, and please pardon my manners -- welcome to the boards, mindwarp!

:) thanks for the welcomes If i have to use frames i would but i hate frames.. but still ssing is someone knows soomwthing else like a cgi files or soemthing to put in a .htaccess or something

If the client wants the url to always be the same for every page - assuming for a moment this could be done - then bookmarking is broken, spidering is broken (only one URL for the search engines) and I'm thinking even the Back Button may be broken. And how would you write links?

It sounds to me like there's a misunderstanding somewhere. Or, could it be, mischief?

no he just wants it to look the same always. to each there own i say. they ask i put it together =)

There are a couple of services that "cloak" your URL. One I used a few years ago was cjb.net which was free as I remember. Many free home page builders use this service to hide their sub-domain appearance.

You can set your options to have all your pages display the same name in the location bar, but it will look like: [yourdomain.cjb.net...]

Maybe someone else will have something more to say. But I have half a mind to report your client to Jakob Nielsen ;) Talk about breaking the metaphor of the web!

Will you be marketing this site at all, or just designing it? If you somehow do find a way to achieve this and you are marketing it, it will be MUCH more successful if the site has multiple pages for spidering S.E's to list.

Keep in mind that having a framed page will severely limit your marketing options, but you will be able to submit it to yahoo at least.

Just some things to keep in mind if you are going to be trying to give the site some online exposure. :)

I'm encountering similar questions from clients myself. I've learned that with issues such as: always displaying "www.domain.com" it is best to inform the client that there is no need to always display the domain name, and as mentioned, Search Engines will have trouble indexing the site.

I wouldn't stress it if I were you, I'd tell them it's a "no can do".

its a gaming site. so i dont think he cares about search engine submission. he just wants the name of his group at the top always with no dir of files dispalying..

Well gee...is the URL name even that good?

It can be done using a single "index" page and forms using "post" with lots of conditional statements in the requisite script. The form action would reference the same page and trigger via the script, say a db request, for content that spills into an html template, or has html self-contained. Or the content could sit in a text file. I guess the images (and other files) would be scattered all over the place. You could even consider one great whopping multi-dimensional array!

If you or your client are into the challenge of building houses of cards then happy times are ahead.

I would just tell the client it can't be done, then hope they don't stumle upon this site. ;)

lol.. i think ill tell him he is SOL. :)
I do appreciate all the responces :)

Your client is being silly.

"He just wants the name of his group at the top"

At the top is the titlebar. And that is easy to configure without major surgery.

That is the right way to build presence. Looks like the client is messing up what he/she really wants.

May that be because the client is not putting a title on the pages and thinks that the bookmarking is going to index the full path?

Can't you put the domain at the top of every page, maybe even the logo?

For my money that would be a much better way to have "the name of his group at the top always with no dir of files displaying".

Josh