Address bar not changing

**koikarma** · 10-21-2009, 04:46 PM

I'm very new to this stuff but just produced a site in dreamweaver. Its stored om my free virgin media space and I have a domain name pointing to it via forwarding via 123-reg.
The problem i have is when viewing my site the address bar doesn't change as you change pages it remains with the domain name and no indexing to other pages.
When i view the page without domain name forwarding then the address bar does change.
I hope that makes sense
any help would be appreciated

**webwest** · 10-21-2009, 05:42 PM

No way to tell anything about this problem without a link to it.

**chrishirst** · 10-21-2009, 05:45 PM

Buy some REAL hosting instead of frame forwarding to ISP free space.

**webwest** · 10-21-2009, 06:31 PM

What chrishirst said too!

**koikarma** · 10-22-2009, 08:00 AM

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Buy some REAL hosting instead of frame forwarding to ISP free space.

Thanks for the reply but as I said I'm very new to this and your answer doesn't explain the difference between the web space that comes with my VM account and what you call REAL hosting.

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No way to tell anything about this problem without a link to it.

Heres a link to the site. http://koikarma.co.uk/

Thanks for your replies

**chrishirst** · 10-22-2009, 08:21 AM

real hosting is where the hostname points directly to the server where the files are located.
Frame forwarding is what people like 123reg do.

I would guess that you are hoping for traffic from SEs at some point. Well it won't happen with what you have now because koikarma.co.uk looks like this to the search engines.

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head><title>KoiKarma</title>
<meta name="Keywords" content="Koi,pond,fish,koi carp."><meta name="Description" content="Koi carp information"></head>
<frameset rows="100%">
<frame title="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/shanekelly1/" src="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/shanekelly1/" name="mainframe" frameborder="0" noresize="noresize" scrolling="auto">
<noframes>Sorry, you don"t appear to have frame support.
Go here instead - <a href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/shanekelly1/">KoiKarma</a></noframes>
</frameset>

**L a r r y** · 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by koikarma

I'm very new to this stuff but just produced a site in dreamweaver. Its stored om my free virgin media space and I have a domain name pointing to it via forwarding via 123-reg.
The problem i have is when viewing my site the address bar doesn't change as you change pages it remains with the domain name and no indexing to other pages.

It sounds to me like you are using the frame option to forward visitors using your domain name to the site. With the frame option, your domain name always appears in the browser's address bar, no matter what page you visit.

With the redirect method, a visitor types your domain name in and arrives at your site with the site's real address appearing on the address bar. Navigation from page to page displays the address of each page.

Back when I owned a domain name that I redirected to pages on say, Geocities, I coded all my internal links on the site as external links to my domain name. E.g:

local link would be to /hamandturkey.html, changed to http://example.com/hamandturkey.html.

The effect would be to arrive at the Geocities site/hamandturkey.html, but it would be indexed by the search engine as example.com/hamandturkey.html, where example.com is my domain.

EDIT:
I read the OP's posting and first response when I posted. My advice is suitable for doing something on the cheap when targeting a small audience, largely by word-of-mouth.

Others have posted valuable information if you want to run a web site the way the big boys do it!
/EDIT

**koikarma** · 10-26-2009, 10:08 AM

Thanks for the replies, I'm learning all the time.
My site isn't commercial at all and most of my visitors come via several koi forums I use and have a link in my signature so I'm not really needing to desperately change anything just now. Really I was more puzzled by it than anything.