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pikachu_mew
23-11-2000, 21:53
Hey, sup.

Just wondered if some of you guys could help me. I own a domain which redirects to another URL, and the address in the address bar changes accordingly.

I was wondering if you could tell me how i could keep my domain address in the address bar, I heard that there was a bit of HTML I could put in my head tags, but i dunno.

I think the term for this kinda thing is "Domain-Cloaking".


Cheers mates
Slave
23-11-2000, 22:27
You could have frames...the top one being 1 pixel big,
and the bottom one linked to your site...?
alpha
23-11-2000, 23:23
Why include the top frame at all? Just put this (off the top of my head) in a file called "index.html":


<html>
<head>
<title>Cheesey redirect</title>
</head>

<frameset cols="100%" rows="100%">
<frame name="main" src="http://www.urltoyoursite.com/">
</frameset>

<noframes>
<a href="http://www.urltoyoursite.com/">Click here to continue</a>
</noframes>

</html>


There are however numerous problems with this method, including:

Search engines won't index your site at all unless you include the no frames portion above, same for viewers using no-frames browsers or browsers with frames switched off
Bookmarking a page in a browser that doesn't use individual frame bookmarking like MSIE and Netscape (?) does will result in only bookmarking the index page of your site
It looks crap, tacky and unprofessional
Users can't see whereabouts on a site they are, as the URL's the same all the time