Re: Web page development question

That's only because the page uses frames.
The URL address is the main frame while the links are in a second frame that
doesn't show the URL.

I think that websites have a right to decide which "door" people come in, I
certainly prefer it when people come in the main index page, that way they
know what the whole site is about and look at more than one small part of
it.

howardm




----- Original Message -----
From: "Katherine Pollara" <kpollara(at)home.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:43 PM
Subject: 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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