website building questions - confused

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Hi,

I am in the process of building a MUni related website. I registered at one site and ended up building it elsewhere.

For redirection, it states “Both URL “cloaking” and standard redirection provided”.

What’s the difference between URL cloaking and standard redirection?

What is URL cloaking and why would someone want that?

Also, I read references to having frames with your website?
what is that and why would you need frames?

Thanks

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Re: website building questions - confused

  1. Suppose your address were www.somelongaddress.com/~username
    And your new url is much shorter, ie www.short.com. Forwarding means that if someone goes to www.short.com, they’ll get redirected to your page with the long url. They’ll still see the long url in the address bar though. Conversely, url cloacking means that they’ll get redirected, but still see www.short.com on all of the pages of your page instead of the long url.

In other words, url cloaking may make your page look a bit more professional, since it hides any trace of the long url that your page is actually hosted on. Unfortunately, it’s hard for people to link to each individual page, since all they see in the address bar is www.short.com. What they can do, is right click the page, view Properties, and copy the url from there. But not a lot of people would know that…

Please don’t use frames. I can’t think of anything that can be done with frames that can’t be done better with a combination of CSS and tables. If you still have it, can you post that page? I’m really curious to know why the author would think that frames are better

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Re: Re: website building questions - confused

Sipid,

I have been dabbling with making a website for a few years. I read stuff hear and there and try to work with some website builder software, but never really get going on anything. At one time I remember reading about frames, but couldn’t remember where. So, I can’t post the page that talks about frames for you.

Where I registered my domain name, the question came up. I didn’t understand the definition they gave. Yours was much better and a big help. I chose not to choose frames.

BTW, I am farther along on the website I am buidling than any so far.

Thanks again.