bit of advice needed... (i think i know what im talking about here but mighnt) the site we're having made for us uses database information for new pages created using a content management system at the administration end... at the moment, this means pages come out with a lot of dynamic parameters... http://www.site.com/campaign_list.cfm?id=19&catid=19&type=cure design company is in the process of sorting out a way of making these static urls for search engine/usability... how long does this usually take??? what can be used to do it??? does anyone know??? cheers! David
I dont know how it is done in coldfusion but generally it is only a couple of man hours work at most subject to the complexity of the site. Whilst the exact How varies between webservers/ programming languages the basics are that you have regular expressions which tells the server how to interprit the url. When a page request comes in the code intercepts the request, checks it against the regular expressions, if it matches it reroutes the request as per the instructions in the regular expression and if it doesnt it allows the original to go through.