RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread Michael Egan
- From: John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 March 2004 14:59 To: Will; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned] From: Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks everyone! :) I was not sure what it was called. Thanks again, ~WILL~ PS: Sorry I thought you

RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread Matt Matijevich
snip I agree with you but when I first looked at this I too thought there was some way of doing this in php which might look more elegant. Seeing urls such as www.mydomain.com/index.php?article_id=2id=e5t28er647ryh362hy67eh4563yh4635 looks fairly cumbersome and I'm sure I've seen something about

RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread Aaron Wolski
On seeing that the only way of doing this was to use frames I decided that the costs of doing this probably outweighed what is in effect a purely cosmetic issue. Never ever underestimate the cosmetic factor when you are talking about Usability and search engines. For example, if you are

Re: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Michael Egan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree with you but when I first looked at this I too thought there was some way of doing this in php which might look more elegant. Seeing urls such as www.mydomain.com/index.php?article_id=2id=e5t28er647ryh362hy67eh4563yh4635 looks fairly cumbersome

RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread Michael Egan
] Subject: RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned] snip I agree with you but when I first looked at this I too thought there was some way of doing this in php which might look more elegant. Seeing urls such as www.mydomain.com/index.php?article_id=2id=e5t28er647ryh362hy6 7eh4563yh4635 looks fairly

RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread Aaron Wolski
-Original Message- From: John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Do a search for search engine friendly URLs or somethig along those lines to see how to fix this. Using frames is not a very elegant solution. I'm not sure how/if search engines will index your pages if you have