Re: [css-d] Disguising path of a page

[Scott Sauyet]

Anne Pennington wrote:
> I have a site for a local business group:
> 
> http://www.actonbusinessforum.net/
> 
> linked to a forum that my partner has created
> 
> http://forums.redmason.net/ActonBusinessForum/ (link on left hand  
> column)
> 
> The site and the forum are hosted separately and they have requested  
> that it appears they are in the same place, ie the path does not  
> contain redmason etc.

As David pointed out, frames are not going to do much for you.  Moreover 
there is no help in CSS, so the question perhaps belongs to another list.

But a quick suggestion would be to use some DNS magic to make this 
happen.  Perhaps your registrar could map, say, 
forums.actonbusinessforum.net to the IP address of forums.redmason.net, 
and then the host for redmason could map that subdomain to the folder 
ActonBusinessForum.  Then everything would be listed at 
[something].actonbusinessforum.net, but they'd be hosted separately.  I 
may be missing something important but I can't see why that wouldn't work.

Good luck,

   -- Scott
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Re: [css-d] Disguising path of a page

[David Dorward]

On 02/03/2008, Anne Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  The site and the forum are hosted separately and they have requested
>  that it appears they are in the same place, ie the path does not
>  contain redmason etc.
>
>  I have experimented by putting the forum in a single frameset frame

>  1.Is there any problem doing it this way, browsers, scrolling etc
>  etc, anything at all?

Anyone opening a link in a new window or tab will bust straight out of
the frames, and search engines will index the content of the frames
and take users directly there and not load the frameset.

>  2. Is there a way of doing this in CSS instead of frames?

No.

>  Greatly appreciate any advice on this.

Don't host the separately.

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[css-d] Disguising path of a page

[Anne Pennington]

Dear all

I have a site for a local business group:

http://www.actonbusinessforum.net/

linked to a forum that my partner has created

http://forums.redmason.net/ActonBusinessForum/ (link on left hand  
column)

The site and the forum are hosted separately and they have requested  
that it appears they are in the same place, ie the path does not  
contain redmason etc.

I have experimented by putting the forum in a single frameset frame

http://www.actonbusinessforum.net/forum

which looks OK, if archaic and does the trick.

Question is:

1.Is there any problem doing it this way, browsers, scrolling etc  
etc, anything at all?
2. Is there a way of doing this in CSS instead of frames?

Greatly appreciate any advice on this.

I am on the digest.

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to have a look.

Annie



Anne Pennington
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