Re: We need some input

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 12:55, Write Words wrote:
> Hi,
> We have a client site at brinkster, where we are using a URL forwarding with 
> masking. We got the domain from godaddy.com. The site worked ok until the 
> masking took effect. If we type the brinkster url (  
> http://www23.brinkster.com/blitzan/index.html  ) into the address bar it 
> looks ok.
> 
> If we type the domain name ( http://www.mrtsscreenprinting.com ) into the 
> address bar, and the masking and url forwarding is called into the picture, 
> the site looks a mess. The pages are smeared and when you scroll down the 
> whole thing becomes worse and worse. I have no idea why this is happening or 
> if it simply peculiar to our own computer here at the shop.
> 
> However, when I do this in Netscape it looks fine. I am using IE 6.0.28 on 
> Windows OS with XP Pro. If there is someone out there willing to take a look 
> and let me know what you think, we would be very grateful.
> 

Because the site is using a hidden frame (with no doc type declaration)
to make this work when you call the domain directly, pretty cheesy.

Why not just do this the right way via DNS? Point your domain to an
authoritative DNS and set up an A record to resolve to your servers IP
then use your webservers virtual host (or equivalent) directive if
necessary.

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