RE: Web page development question

This is an interesting question.  I ran into a situation where I wanted to
link to specific pages at www.blues.org on our site.  If you go to this page
http://www.blues.org/ibc/2000/  and click on any link on this page, the url
doesn't change.  In order for me to link to internal pages in this directory
I had to view source to see what the page names really were.  I was
wondering how this is done.

I happen to think this is a stupid idea that discourages linking.  I am sure
they do this to gain control over how folks enter their site, but it is
futile.  Anyone with a tiny bit of knowledge of html can get the file names
and link to the pages of their choice, which is exactly what I did.

I am very interested in hearing your thoughts about this.

Sorry about the earlier email with nothing in it.  Just an error.
Kate Pollara


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
[mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Chuck Evans
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:27 PM
To: 'Carol Brooks'; hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Subject: RE: Web page development question


<editorial>

Yikes. I hope not.

</editorial>

To answer your question, no, you can't alter the URL that shows in the
Address box in IE (or Location box in Netscape). You can change the title of
the page that appears in the top bar of the browser, and you can change what
appears in the Status Bar at the bottom of the browser (hiding the default
URL with something like "Click here to go to my page".

I suppose you could make the url be something like:

http://www.yoursite.com/Welcome_To_My_Page

(that would be a directory named Welcome_To_My_Page with a default document
like index.html in it).

Chuck Evans
Web Guy
Click2learn, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Brooks [mailto:carolsbrooks(at)yahoo.com]

Is there a way to change what appears in the address
bar? Like someone clicks on a link to
http://www.mypage.com/justapage.html and instead of
that appearing in the address bar the developer could
have a message appear like "Welcome to my page". Hope
this makes sense!

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