url question

[Egor]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post.

I was wondering how people got nice url's on their sites such as:

www.egor-k.com/portfolio/ as opposed to

www.egor-k.com/portfolio.html

Any advice or tutorial link will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[JohnAz]

Rename portfolio.html to index.html
and place it in a new folder called portfolio.

A call to egor-k.com/portfolio/
will now look for and display
egor-k.com/portfolio/index.html

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post.

I was wondering how people got nice url's on their sites such as:

www.egor-k.com/portfolio/ as opposed to

www.egor-k.com/portfolio.html

Any advice or tutorial link will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Egor]

Thanks JohnAz,

A couple more questions.

Whould that affect the search engine rankings - having every page named index.html.

And if I have a floder called images would I have to call it like http://www.egor-k.com/images/bg.gif as opposed to me normally doing in like images/bg.gif or is there a simpler way to keep the short links such as that?

[Toly]

I think what you might be looking for is a mod_rewrite tutorial.

[JohnAz]

Didn't realize you're wanting EVERY page to be like site.com/name/

For me, and what alot of others do is use directory structure for topical use. Such as yoursite/portfolio/gallery1.htm : yoursite/portfolio/gallery2.htm..
This also aids in forcing you to have more content which in the long run will help more with ranking.

As far as linking to images:
/images/bg.gif will take tell the server to go up one level to find the folder 'images'.

[Egor]

Toly, It looks like its used to make server side generated url's more user friendly. Would mod rewrite help with static pages like index.html portfoli.html etc?

JohnAz,

Yeah I only wanted the main 4 or so sections to display like that.

So let me get this right if i had a link to my images in http://www.egor-k.com/portfolio/site/site/

whould I have to link to an image like this? ///images/bg.gif or would it still stay as /images/bg.gif?

Also is there a way to see your site locally. When I changed the links to images in dreamweaver they dont take effect but work fine online

[Toly]

So let me get this right if i had a link to my images in http://www.egor-k.com/portfolio/site/site/

whould I have to link to an image like this? ///images/bg.gif or would it still stay as /images/bg.gif?

/images/bg.gif would be fine because when you put an "/" in front of any directory or file, the server will start looking from the root.

[Egor]

Thanks a lot Toly, Us there a way to view my pages locally like this though?

[Toly]

Thanks a lot Toly, Us there a way to view my pages locally like this though?

No, it will not work with that.

I really don't know a way as I have never worked any pages locally. Sorry.

[JohnAz]

With dreamweaver..."preview in browser" wont work??

[Egor]

JohnAz I dont think so, I think the / before links makes it go to the root of windows. But I think maybe defining a site in DreamWeaver may solve the problem.

Thanks for all your help guys, always appreciated

[Paul O'B]

But I think maybe defining a site in DreamWeaver may solve the problem.

If I remember correctly you define your site and then define a local root folder and your images should display when you preview in browser.

However you can only view one page at at a time like this as any linked pages won't refer correctly when viewed locally through dw.

Paul

[Egor]

Thanks Paul