Open Blog from Web Address

adam · Post by **adam** » 10 Jul 2010, 12:02

Hi,

I have a blog of my own.

What I'm wondering is that whether it's possible to open my blog page just by typing a website address like http://www.mynameonline.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
in the web browser if the name of my blog is "mynameonline"

Otherwise do I have to create a website for that.

Any suggestion on this would be kindly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Post by **Leif** » 10 Jul 2010, 12:48

adam wrote:Hi,

I have a blog of my own.

What I'm wondering is that whether it's possible to open my blog page just by typing a website address like http://www.mynameonline.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
in the web browser if the name of my blog is "mynameonline"

Otherwise do I have to create a website for that.

Can you clarify <...if the name of my blog is "mynameonline"> Do you mean you have a blog at something like http://mynameonline.blogspot.com/ ?

Do you own the domain mynameonline.com?

If the answer to the above two questions is yes, then you can set up a redirect from the home page of www.mynameonline.com to take the viewer directly to http://mynameonline.blogspot.com/ :

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<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
window.location.replace ("http://mynameonline.blogspot.com/");
</script>

Alternatively, I believe you can have your domain simply point to your blog address.

adam · Post by **adam** » 10 Jul 2010, 12:55

Thanks for the reply Leif.
Yes, the name of my blog is http://mynameonline.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I do not own the domain mynameonline.com

Does this mean if I want to get what I have said in Post 21920 I have to first get a domain for that?

Post by **Leif** » 10 Jul 2010, 13:00

adam wrote:Thanks for the reply Leif.
Yes, the name of my blog is http://mynameonline.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I do not own the domain mynameonline.com

Does this mean if I want to get what I have said in Post 21920 I have to first get a domain for that?

Yes - if the domain does not exist it will not be found by any browser and will therefore not be able to redirect to your blog in any circumstances.

There would also be a conflict if someone else obtained mynameonline.com - typing that into a browser would take you to their domain, not your blog.

adam · Post by **adam** » 10 Jul 2010, 13:02

Anyways, Thanks for the reply.

ChrisGreaves · Post by **ChrisGreaves** » 04 Feb 2011, 13:49

Am I doing something wrong?

Leif wrote:If the answer to the above two questions is yes, then you can set up a redirect from the home page

Thanks Leif. I tried this as method (2).
Method (1):

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Chris Greaves's Home page</title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.chrisgreaves.com/WP/"></HEAD>
<BODY>
I have moved to a WordPress fabrication.
</BODY>
</HTML>

Method2:

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<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
window.location.replace ("http://www.chrisgreaves.com/WP/");
</script>

My owned domain is http://www.ChrisGreaves.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, so I have tried two methods of creating http://www.chrisgreaves.com/index.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In both cases I go to the URL bar of my browser (F6 in FireFox), type "www.chrisgreaves.com" and expect to be taken to my blog, but end up at the same old self-compiled home page.
In both cases if I type in "www.chrisgreaves.com/index.htm" I am taken to the superb new WordPress blog site.

I have previously managed to do a redirect from an inferior page, but have not tried a redirect of the entire web site before. Is there some special trick?

Oh, hang on and don't reply yet; maybe I should exit FireFox and flush my cache ....

(Minutes later:)
Tada!

Thanks Leif!!!!

Post by **Leif** » 04 Feb 2011, 14:26

Have you got anything else on your index.htm page?

If someone visits your site with scripting disabled, they will typically see something like this:

x.jpg

(as seen in my Firefox on an otherwise totally blank page).

You may wish to add a more friendly, manual link, such as Click here to continue... (although it is possible just to click the link shown in the attachment).

ChrisGreaves · Post by **ChrisGreaves** » 04 Feb 2011, 16:19

Leif wrote:You may wish to add a more friendly, manual link,

Thanks Leif.
Method 1, slightly adjusted, should do the trick then

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Chris Greaves's Home page</title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="3;url=http://www.chrisgreaves.com/WP/"></HEAD>
<BODY>
I have moved to a WordPress fabrication at 
<p class="Normal"><a class="nav" href= "http://www.chrisgreaves.com/WP/"> http://www.chrisgreaves.com/WP/ </a></p>.
</BODY>
</HTML>

I have set in place a 3-second delay, which I will remove later today.
I remember being puzzled about pages which said "You will be redirected shortly" instead of just getting on with the job.

Post by **Leif** » 04 Feb 2011, 16:33

That works OK!

Just as a matter of interest, what do you have in http://www.chrisgreaves.com/WP/ ?

Is it not something you can put in the root folder of your domain (i.e. http://www.chrisgreaves.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)?

ChrisGreaves · Post by **ChrisGreaves** » 04 Feb 2011, 17:01

Leif wrote:That works OK!

Thanks Leif greatly for the confirmation, and the initial nudge.

Just as a matter of interest, what do you have in http://www.chrisgreaves.com/WP/ ? Is it not something you can put in the root folder of your domain (i.e. http://www.chrisgreaves.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)?

Now you are going to confuse me (grin)
For the longest time http://www.chrisGreaves.com/index.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; has been my home page, originally with about 740 pages hanging off it via a site map.
This week I got tired of my home-grown compiler and decided to join the human race, switched to Word Press after experimenting briefly with Google Sites.

So right now (Friday morning) I am ecstatic that if a CEO/CFO wanders off to ChrisGreaves.com, they'll see professional-looking glossy instead of nerdy-geek-triumphal bytes.

I still have to clean up http://www.chrisgreaves.com/WP/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, make it look less like a blog and more like a web site, and, as you suggest, make it the home page, avoiding redirection.

I am doing this in little steps in my Copious Free Time^(TM) while mastering Twitter, LinkedIn, an eLetter for CEOs and a blog ditto while sitting on the phone trying to drum up business after accompanying my neighbour to the vets with her aging cat. :exhausted:

Post by **Leif** » 04 Feb 2011, 17:13

Good luck with it!

I'm not so sure about the 'Chris Revenue' bit though - it brought to mind our own Inland Revenue, followed closely by images of Chris's Revue (:shudder:)...

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