Question

I’m a fairly inexperienced web designer learning css/html on the fly for a company’s web site.

I want to keep menus, banners, etc in one document so I don’t have to repeat updates across many documents.

My solution was to make an index.aspx file with the menus and headers, then have a simple iframe for content. This works quite well and updates easily.

the format is:

• http://www.example.com/index.aspx?page=page1.htm
• http://www.example.com/index.aspx?page=page2.htm

The problem — Google is indexing my iframe’d pages and linking to them directly:

• http://www.example.com/page1.htm
• http://www.example.com/page2.htm

How can I set up redirects to page1.htm forwards to index.aspx?page=page1.htm without creating a “hall of mirrors” effect inside the original iframe?

Answer 1

Simple answer, put this on your page, either inside the head or the body tag:

<script type="text/javascript">
if(top.location==location){
    top.location.href="index.aspx?page=page1.htm"
}
</script>

Complex answer, you really should get some sort of CMS system.