Confused with my web address..

[maquinaphoto 10]

Hi,

Does anyone know what the #! and the code at the end means on my website link?

http://www.maquinaphotography.com/#!weddings/c1ab2

[Leah-Lacie 10]

Its the names of the folders on your site I think, in the bit that you, or whoever does the site for you, can see when editing the website.

 

 

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One folder will be called '#!weddings' and inside that folder is another called the code bit on the end - I think anyway. Been a long time since I had a.website!

 

 

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And looking at your site (nice by the way!) you'll probably have more folders named 'portraits' 'packages' etc. The #! part isnt necessary as far as I can see, but I'm not certain! Renaming the folder just 'Weddings' would change the link.

 

 

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[dosxuk 10]

Its the names of the folders on your site

 

It isn't. A # is not a valid part of the path of a web address. If your folder had a # symbol in it, it would appear in the address as '%23'.

 

The # marks a section of a page to display, and this can be interpreted by coding in the page to load different content. http://www.example.com/ and http://www.example.com/#mypage will request the exact same page from your webserver, but the #mypage can be used to display different content.

 

Basically, it's part of the way your website has been built, and you won't be able to get rid of it without binning the entire website.

[Guest]

The standard meaning for # is to denote go to an id or name attribute on the page and scroll to it.

 

So going to /index.php would go to the top of the page /index.php#footer would go to the same page but move down the page to something with id="footer" in the tag. It's not loading different content.

 

Like this http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/misc.php?do=page&template=Privacy#Cookies

 

However as dosxuk says the server can be setup to interpret that as well and do something else when it sends the page.