Remove my pages from history

[snapped2002]

I am making a site called theremote.ca

The question I have is this.

When a user visits my site evrything is done from the main page and the
pages they visit change through frames.
They never actually leave the index page.


The problem I am having is the history. It is showing all pages they visited
with me and of course if they choose to click one of them it will not take
them back to index, it will take them directly to that page that should be
appearing within the frame on the index page.

How do I adjust these pages so they will either show up in history only as
theremote.ca or even better is there a way to make them NOT add themselves to
the users browser history at all.

Desperate in ottawa.

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[Andrew Murray]

I'm not sure the "history" has anything to do with this problem and I don't
think that's your only issue to be concerned about.

First thing is to make sure your 'target' is taking the user back to the
"main" frame, otherwise it will break out of the frames and display the page
in a new window, or within the same window but at 'full page' rather than
inside the frameset. Check all your links for the 'target' attribute - this
is set within the hyperlinks dialogue.

Secondly, frames can cause problems especially with search engines which may
not index the actual 'frameset' page - the frameset page is what causes the
content to be loaded with in the frames - they don't really contain text
content for the search engines to index. Therefore there's nothing to
search on and it won't show up in results. Only the actual content pages
would and if the user clicks on one link in the results, that would load the
page but without your navigation structure.

There's no frameset page at www.theremote.ca as you have given to
demonstrate the issue.......can you give us a working page link with your
frames?

Note that search engines do not rely solely on keyword and description meta
tags, so even if you put these meta tags into the frameset / index.html file
the search engine ranking would more than likely be further down the list of
results than at #1.

 

[Ronx]

The browser History is a list of all the pages visited. Emphasise -ALL the
pages. There is nothing you can do to stop pages going into the browser
history.

Search engines will also see and list each, individual page. A search will
find the page, and the page will be presented without the frameset, so an
individuals history is the least of your problems, you also have search
engines to worry about.

This is one of the pitfalls of using frames. When building new sites frames
are one of the methods that are best avoided. They generate more problems
than they solve.

--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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