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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/21/06 23:10
greencw3 wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> Thank you for your thoughtful reply. After searching for and failing to
> find a "magic bullet" that would solve my iframes issue, I suspected
> that dumping the iframe would be the best solution. You have certainly
> confirmed that suspicion.
Yes, frames were an early solution to static, repetitive parts (banners
and navigation) of web pages within a website (early 90's) when
server-side was not readily available. Server-side is a much better and
easier solution.
>
> I am a media specialist (translation: a school librarian) who has the
> task of updating and advertising, via external links by email, our
> school web site. It is these email hyperlinks that led me to post my
> original query. The actual creation--and annual re-creation--of the
> site is done by a web design teacher and her students, so I am loathe
> to make any major design changes to the site.
PHP is not very hard at all. Many, many online tutorials. The hardest
part in my opinion is that it has so many core functions. Good place to
start...
http://www.php.net/manual/en/
>
> Consequently, I am hoping to solve this issue without altering the look
> of the web site. Each page on the site has the look of a three-framed
> page: an decorative image on the left, an image with navigational
> hyperlinks on top, and content (now in the iframe) on the rest of the
> page. Given the static nature of the top and left images, could I solve
> this using a cascading style sheet and link every page on the site to
> this CSS? I ask this because I know nothing about PHP and fear screwing
> up the site while climbing the learning curve.
>
It can be interspersed within your HTML so conversion can be less
painful! Of course you have not provided a URL to site in question. All
depends on which webserver you are on, if Apache then most likely PHP
will be an option, IIS then ASP will most likely be your server-side
language. Sounds like the site was do for an upgrade anyway!
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Take care,
Jonathan
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