Have you looked at HTTPHandlers and the RewritePath function? You can make
pretty much any URL execute pretty much any page on your site.
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Eric Lawrence
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"nick" <nickgieschen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:305cab98.0402281102.2a42b0a@posting.google.co m...[color=blue]
> Hi there,
>
> I'm designing a site with pages where the layout is the same and
> content is different. So, obviously, I'm just coding one page and
> brining the data in from the database. The drawback to this is that
> the URL names aren't really meaningful. For example, let's say I have
> an aboutus page and a directions page. In a statically coded site, the
> urls might be
www.site.com/aboutus.aspx and
>
www.site.com/directions.aspx. In my case, since I'm using the same
> page it would be more like
www.site.com/template1.aspx?pageId=6 where
> 6 is the PK of the page in the database. Is there a way to have the
> best of both worlds?
>
> Once solution I've considered is customizing my 404 pages. So a user
> could type
www.site.com/aboutus.aspx. The 404 page would look up
> about.aspx's pageId and server.transfer to
> template1.aspx?pageId=[about's pageId]. This doesn't seem particularly
> elegant to me.
>
> I was considering making each of the pages and inheriting from a
> custom page class, but then I'd still have to hard code the page Id in
> each of the pages, which is somewhat messy - especially for adding new
> pages dynamically.
>
> Thoughts?[/color]
