Masking Links?

[FreeBaGeL]

I tried posting this in the beginners forum but that place seems pretty dead and I didn't get any replies.

I have a site with some realllllly long links. Like http://www.mydomain.com/stuff/mores...2363594734.html

Long stuff like that. In the address bar it's really messy to see all that, I've seen some sites where the main domain name just stays in teh address bar the whole time. How can I do this? So when someone navigates through my website the address bar will always remain www.mydomain.com?

I'm using php and html.

Thanks.

 

[Joe Tito]

I don't know how to do it, but I would advise against it. People wont be able to copy links to subpages in your site if you do that.

 

[soapbath]

Very very bad idea I would hate it if I visited your site and wanted to refresh the page, you would get sent back to the home page.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

If you refresh does it automatically go to the page in the address bar? It doesn't like cache the actual page it's on? I saw it somewhere and don't remember it going back to the home page when I tried to refresh, but I can't remember what site it was.

Regardless it's not really my decision, I'm being paid a flat fee by someone to make a website and they specifically told me they didn't want the big long links up there.

 

[Antares]

I have to agree that it is generally a bad idea. That being said, I've typically seen it done with frames.

 

[Rowan W]

My site has that, where it keeps the main domain name in the address bar the whole time. This is because I use URL forwarding and my domain name provider uses frames to forward to my actual host.

It's not recommended though. I only use it so people can remember my site easily.