I can't believe I traveled so far and so long from The Purple and Green Turtle (I still have friends that reference this site as "that turtle site she's constantly reading")!

Two issues have come up I know someone will have an idea on how to deal with it:

1.  How can someone clean up the search engines of outdated materials (I'm talking its been years in some instances since the page was actually hosted - other situations include a loss of email addresses and passwords to take down other materials)

2.  When using a password-protected area of a website, how can someone obscure the actual link being displayed in the bottom left corner when someone mouses over the linkable material?  Is this a service provider issue and I need to find another service to password protect a portion of my site or is there a nugget of HTML programming I can toss in the mix so that no matter what a visitor does, mousing over a link will not display the actual address?

Happy Sunday!

2 = onmouseover and onmouseout events that update the window.status element on the page.

the other way would be to marry that with a little url obfuscation........

regardless a click will direct a browser to an address, that'll be visible in the address bar unless the window pops up inside a chromeless window, even still it'll be in the history so there's no way to totally hide the address of a page.

1. Do you mean idexation of non-existant material? If so you can use the 'page removal tool'.


2. There are plenty of ways to create password protected areas of a site.....

SIMPLE; If yer on a NIX/Apache server U can set up an htaccess... or if there is cPanel, it can be done there.

MiDDLE; Install a CMS such as Joomla which have everything all built in including levels of membership to restrict access to content.

CUSTOM; Grab a script to modify (HotScripts or somewhere) or have programmers create a custom solution for your situation.....