RE: RE: Web page development question

This is (as you no doubt found) a result of using frames.  Depending
on one's point of view (see Jakob Nielsen's "Why Frames Suck
Most of the Time" at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9612.html),
it's a major problem or a major blessing.  (I personally find
it a major problem.)



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>--- Original Message ---
>From: "Katherine Pollara" <kpollara(at)home.com>
>To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Date: 8/30/01 2:43:09 PM
>

>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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