how to create urls like this:

http://www.mysite.com/news/this-is-some-article-i-wrote
or
http://www.mysite.com/this-is-some-article-i-wrote

with the - in between each word...how do i do this? is this something i'll have to manually do? or is there some kind of program or code that i need to insert into my page?

 

what are you using to create your pages?

 

are you using wordpress or just any normal html page?

in wordpress there is one such option where u can define this
in html, u have to do this manually

 

hmmm

there are several ways

in this case:

http://www.mysite.com/this-is-some-article-i-wrote

you can create a dit called "this-is-some-article-i-wrote" in the root server and then place inside index.html with your site content

 

i'm just using a normal html page through my host, lunarpages

so with wordpress, i can customize the page, so it won't look too much like a blog right?

i'm assuming, wordpress would be the less time consuming route to go?

 

Yes ... it will be .. if u use other CMS u need to know about Mod Writing !!!

 

Heh, Website Baker supports this kind of URL development out of the box making your URLs pretty SEO perfect, you can name them anything you want.

Say you have a page called Alpe d'Huez - Hotels and Apartments. Website Baker will take this name and covert the url into yoursite.com/pages/alpe-dhuez--hotels-and-apartments.php. This can be of course changed at any time too, and the changes will ripple through the entire site in an instant.

So yeah, no need to write MODs =)

 

what cms are you using? most of the cms have permanent link sections in their control panel.

if you are not using a cms, you must learn more about .htaccess

 

Not so, with Joomla