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: Using your own domain name

Using a subdomain

You can access your links page using your own domain name by creating a subdomain which points to Website Toolbox. You can choose any name you want for the subdomain.

For example, if you choose the subdomain "links", your links page URL will look like this:

http://links.yoursite.com/cgi/view/links.cgi?username=username

Instead of

http://www.websitetoolbox.com/cgi/view/links.cgi?username=username

Please note that this method will only work if you have your own domain name and access to the DNS records for that domain.

Here is how the record should look:

Name Type Data

subdomain.yoursite.com. CNAME websitetoolbox.com.

If you are having trouble with the subdomain setup process, a Website Toolbox representative can do it for you. There would be a one-time fee of $24.95 and you would need to provide the representative with the username and password for your account with your domain name provider. Please contact Customer Support if you are interested in this option.

You may need the Website Toolbox IP address as well. The IP address to use is 12.144.36.179. Only use the IP address as a last resort. If we change the IP address in the future your subdomain will stop working correctly.

After adding the record you will need to wait approximately 12-36 hours for your changes to propagate throughout the Internet. Your subdomain may not work correctly until the propagation is complete.

If your domain registration company also provides web forwarding, you can setup your subdomain to web forward to your full subdomain URL. This way, links.yoursite.com will forward to links.yoursite.com/cgi/view/links.cgi?username=username. If you do not setup web forwarding in combination with your subdomain, when a user just enters links.yoursite.com and forgets the rest of the URL, they will reach a "403 Forbidden" page.

Website Toolbox does not provide additional support for subdomains because each system is different. The setup process for each system may be different as well. For additional support you may want to contact your domain name and/or web hosting provider. Specific instructions for certain providers is available here.

Using an HTML frame

It is also possible to use an HTML frame that covers 100% of the screen to hide the Website Toolbox URL.

Here is an example of a message board using this method:
http://www.bigdayout.com/forum.html

Click here to view the HTML code for this method. <html> <head> <title>Document Title</title> </head> <frameset rows="1, *" frameborder=0 framespacing=0 border=0> <frame src="URL TO BLANK PAGE" frameborder=0 framespacing=0 scrolling="no" name="blank" marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 border=0> <frame src="LINKS PAGE URL" frameborder=0 framespacing=0 marginwidth=0 scrolling="auto" name="forum" border=0> </frameset> <noframes>Sorry, your browser does not support frames.</noframes> </html>

Note: The URL in the browser's address bar will not change when users click a link on your links page. Also, the Website Toolbox URL will still be used in emails sent out by the system.

Using web forwarding

You can purchase a separate domain name for your links page and then use web forwarding to point the domain name directly to your links page. Please click here for more information.

Note: The Website Toolbox URL will still be used in emails sent out by the system.

Using an iframe

You can use the iframe HTML tag to embed your links page into your website. The iframe tag creates an inline frame or basically a frame within the page.

Here is an example of a message board using this method:
http://www.allamericanfootballleague.com/messageboard.html

Here is the HTML code:

<iframe src="LINKS PAGE URL" width="100%" height="550"></iframe>

Note: The URL in the browser's address bar will not change when users click a link on your links page. Also, the Website Toolbox URL will still be used in emails sent out by the system.