it's a built in capability, edit your web.config file and set the url format to friendly i.e

urlformat="HumanFriendly"

to the following line in your web.config:

 <friendlyUrl defaultProvider="DNNFriendlyUrl">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="DNNFriendlyUrl" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Url.FriendlyUrl.DNNFriendlyUrlProvider, DotNetNuke.HttpModules" includePageName="true" regexMatch="[^a-zA-Z0-9 _-]"  urlformat="HumanFriendly" />
      </providers>
    </friendlyUrl>

You can even build you own providers, see http://www.dotnetnuke.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=1vDi5Hgy5zE%3D&tabid=478&mid=857 for more details - there are a number of popular ones such as http://www.ifinity.com.au/Products/Friendly_Url_Provider_For_DNN/

Cathal

the one problem with URL's this then leaves...is (after I change to friendly URL's) that I get a url like:

          http://localhost/dotnetnuke/Home/Testpage/test2.aspx

rather than

        http://localhost/Home/Testpage/test2.aspx

is there a built in way to remove the dotnetnuke part at all? or is this an issue with how I setup dnn in IIS? I added the site as an application to the default site. For some reason when I just add it as a normal website, I just get a blank page, so I set it up as an application!