Company domain - I'd like to use for personal hobby site as well

[Barry G. Sumpter]

Hi all,

Total novice.

But have been working with Front Page over the last few weeks to setup a
company web site to sell my software.

I'd like to add personal hobby stuff, like another web site, or additional
web pages as well.

Although, http://mydomain.com, has a company default.htm that includes only
my company web site.

I'd like to add a personal.htm, hobbies.htm, or family.htm and keep it
seperate from the default.htm.

As in, neither have a hyperlink to the other.

Does anyone have any suggestions or perhaps a hyperlink to a web page
describing such a thing?

 

[Rick Budde]

You could take several approaches to this:

1. if your host allows you to create subwebs (see Front
Page Help), you could create your personal site(s) in
that manner. These are treated as pretty much separate
sites.

2. if your host does not allow subwebs, you could simply
create a subdirectory under your company site directory
(www.mydomain.com/hobbies) and create a default.htm page
in that directory. If you communicate a web site address
to someone you wish to enter the "hobby" portion of your
site, it would be www.mydomain/hobbies.

Unless you create hyperlinks between these sites, your
individual users will not not of the existance of the
other portion of your site.

One advantage of using subwebs over the subdirectory
approach occurs when you attach a search component to
your site. With a subweb, the search component only looks
within the pages in the subweb. With the subdirectory
approach, a search component in your business web would
also search your hobbies pages.

Here is an example of the second type:

www.PowderValleyShadowbrook.Org and
www.PowderValleyShadowbrook.Org/CBW

These are two sites ... one business and one pleaseure.

I hope this points you in the right direction.

 

[Barry G. Sumpter]

Hi Rick,

Thanks for the thurough reply.

Before starting this thread I had tried sub web and sub-web to no avail.

The subweb returns sub site...

Which is what I think you are outlining in your post.

However I believe the www.mydomain.com/hobbies will lead directly to
the company site by using www.mydomain.com .

Which I do quite often to get to the domains home page.

hmmmm.... would it be a bad thing if people interested in my hobby stumbled
upon my company site?

Perhaps not a bad thing.

What about visa-versa - people interested in my company stumbling upon my
hobby site?
Perhaps not as forgiving. ???

Search component aside, I wonder if the address to the hobbie subsite would
be any different to the address of the hobbie subdirectory under the company
site directory ?

..... Really starting to enjoy this leanin thang.

baz

 

[Ronx]

You could register another domain for your hobby site, and use frame
forwarding (or DNS) to point the domain at the hobby folder on your business
site. Visitors to the hobby site would not see the address for the business
site, unless they looked at the frameset HTML. Using DNS would eliminate
that, but your host will have to support multiple domains on one hosting
account.

Ron

 

[Rick Budde]

As to folks stumbling onto your hobby site from your
company site:

If your company site is www.mydomain.com how would
someone guess there was another site below it unless you
told them or provided a hyperlink within
www.mydomain.com? So I feel this is under your control
pretty well except for the potential access that could be
gained to your hobby site if you include a search
component on your compay site.

Stumbling onto your company site would be much easier by
deleting the hobby from www.mydomain.com/hobby.

 

[Barry G. Sumpter]

Hi Rick and Ronx,

Thanks for the reply.

Just to clarify...

....However I believe the hobbies sub site www.myCOMPANYdomain.com/hobbies
will lead
directly to the company domin by using www.myCOMPANYdomain.com

and visa-versa

I believe the company sub site www.myHOBBYdomain.com/company will lead
directly to the hobby domain site by using www.myHOBBYdomain.com ....

The hobby sub site leading to the company domain being the lesser evil of
the two scenarios.

...............


at the moment I'm keeping my under construction default.htm hidden by naming
it something like qwerty.htm and accessing via www.mydomain.com/qwerty.htm.

Perhaps I should simply hide both as in:
www.mydomain.com/company.htm
and
www.mydomain.com/hobbies.htm
with no default.htm or index.htm etc...

but then what response to www.mydomain.com?

Page not accessable error
or a simple page
with company and hobbies hyperlink?

Or am I starting to talk in circles now?

Just tryin to talk meself thru it ...

baz

 

[Rick Budde]

If you are worried that someone will gain access to your
hobbies site from your company site you could:

1. set up a subdirectory of your company site
named "Hobbies". Someone would have to guess that there
is something "hidden" in your company site and guess that
this is hobbies". This is unlikely as I said in a
previous post.

2. if this still worries you, you could name the home
page of your Hobbies something very non-guessable, eg.
csdcjgsijwckhuiv.htm (Ijust pressed some random keys). It
is REALLY unlikely someone would guess both "hobbies"
and "csdcjgsijwckhuiv.htm"

I would suggest you set up a Hobbies subdirectory within
your company site and a home page to the Hobbies site
with some wierd name ... no content, just a page. Publish
it to your host. Ask your most technicaly inclined friend
to try to access the Hobbies site without giving him/her
any other info other than you have a Hobbies site
included in your company site. I bet they don't find it.

-----Original Message-----
Hi Rick and Ronx,

Thanks for the reply.

Just to clarify...

....However I believe the hobbies sub site www.myCOMPANYdomain.com/hobbies
will lead
directly to the company domin by using www.myCOMPANYdomain.com

and visa-versa

I believe the company sub site

www.myHOBBYdomain.com/company will lead

directly to the hobby domain site by using

www.myHOBBYdomain.com ....

 

[Rick Budde]

To clarify a bit further:

Your company site would be: www.CompanyDomain.Com

Your Hobbies site would be: www.CompanyDomain.Com/Hobbies
(if you use your server's default homepage designation,
or www.CompanyDomain.Com/cccjqpoqojoap.htm if you try to
hide your Hobbies site one step more.

-----Original Message-----
Hi Rick and Ronx,

Thanks for the reply.

Just to clarify...

....However I believe the hobbies sub site www.myCOMPANYdomain.com/hobbies
will lead
directly to the company domin by using www.myCOMPANYdomain.com

and visa-versa

I believe the company sub site

www.myHOBBYdomain.com/company will lead

directly to the hobby domain site by using

www.myHOBBYdomain.com ....

 

[Ronx]

The system I outlined is one I am currently using.
My personal site (in this case the main site) is at
www.rxs-enterprises.org/
My business site is a subweb of the personal site, and can be reached at
www.georgesgourmetfoods.co.uk

Try to get from one to the other without looking at the georgesgourmetfoods
HTML - the only snag with framed redirection. When I set up the DNS method
there will be no visible connection between the two.



Ron