# Amateur's effort to add a new page to his website

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/amateurs-effort-to-add-a-new-page-to-his-website/185050>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 12, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/amateurs-effort-to-add-a-new-page-to-his-website/185050 "2010-03-12T15:15:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/RichardOnRails)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/amateurs-effort-to-add-a-new-page-to-his-website/185050/1 "2010-03-12T15:15:24Z")

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Hi All,

I’ve got a friend who’s had a simple website up for years:  
[www.xxxx.com](http://www.xxxx.com).  
The site was obviously generated with some kind of fill-in-the-blanks  
facility.  
He wants to add a page to his site for his mom’s stuff and asked me  
about the pros and cons of the alternative ideas for addressing her  
page:

[www.mom.xxxx.com](http://www.mom.xxxx.com)  
[www.xxxx.com/mom](http://www.xxxx.com/mom)  
[www.xxxx.com/mom.html](http://www.xxxx.com/mom.html)

HTML is not my long suit and I’m still working on my first Rails  
application, so I’m not qualified to offer an opinion.

Any suggestions for my lawyer/mathematician/non-programmer friend?

Thanks in advance,  
Richard

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**Author:** ![RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/RichardOnRails)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/amateurs-effort-to-add-a-new-page-to-his-website/185050/2 "2010-03-12T18:02:13Z")

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On 12 March 2010 14:13, RichardOnRails  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> [XXXX](http://www.xxxx.com/mom)  
> [XXXX](http://www.xxxx.com/mom.html)

It depends on whether his mom’s stuff is conceptually part of his  
website, in which case the second or third options (for the second I  
presume you meant [XXX Sex - Free Porn Videos at XXX.com](http://www.xxx.com/mom/some_page.html), or a completely  
separate site in which case the first might be more appropriate. That  
assumes he has the possibility of doing the first of course (depending  
on how his site is hosted).

Colin

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**Author:** ![RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/RichardOnRails)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/amateurs-effort-to-add-a-new-page-to-his-website/185050/3 "2010-03-12T18:32:03Z")

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Again, Colin, thanks for your guidance.

I just finished visiting my friend’s site , viewing its source code  
and talking to him by phone

He’s got a column of links on the left. Clicking one brings up the  
referenced page with the URL:  
[XXXX](http://www.xxxx.com/ThePage.html).

He’s sophisticated enough to see how the link is coded and where the  
page’s code is stored and how it’s programmed. So he can replicate  
the structure, substituting “mom” as appropriate.

Then the mom.html appendage will bring up mom’s one-and-only page  
without her visitors ever bringing up his law-office pages, so mom can  
publish that URL. But he’s not averse to actually having a link to  
mom’s site on his home page so that her users can access it that way.

I think he’ll be OK, but if not I’ll try to help him … backed by my  
resources, like this NG.

Best wishes,  
Richard