I am currently using all relative links on my website. I began using SSL on a few pages and quickly realized that the "https://" from the SSL pages carry though all of the relative links (which makes the other pages https,even though they are not meant to be).

What is the best way to set up SSL pages?

Do I need make the SSL pages open new a new window so that when they are done with the SSL pages they can "close window" and not have the https affect the relative links on the rest of the site?

ALSO...

Do I need to put the SSL pages on a sub-domain? I've heard this is good to prevent search engines from listing the URL twice (once as http and again as https)?

Please help!

Thank you in advance,
WebGrrl

Presuming you don't have 2 million SSL pages, why don't you use absolute links from the SSL pages?

Must confess, I've never had to use SSL, so I haven't really researched it, but that's what I'd do as a first remedy.

If you use SSI, it's pretty easy to make two menu's: one with relative links and one with absolute links, then call whichever into the page you need it on.