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Posted by Brian Robertson on 04/27/07 13:52
Amos E Wolfe wrote:
> "Brian Robertson" <brianrobertson@[nospam].com> wrote in message
> news:8SlYh.2335$Tu5.1149@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...
>> Can anyone help with what is probably a simple question?
>>
>> I have a frames based page at
>> http://www.conceptcrafts.co.uk/britishrailways1960
>>
>> I want to link to this page from other sites, but I want to be able to
>> change what appears in the main frame, rather than it being the default
>> home page. How do I do this?
>>
>
> If you continue to use frames you will need to create a separate frameset
> page with different content in the main frame area. Other members of this
> group will no doubt be along shortly to advise you with a number of reasons
> why using frames is a bad idea.
>
> I would recommend using an alternative, such as server-side scripting. I use
> php which is extremely simple once you get the hang of a few basic commands.
> For example, this site http://www.jacomputers.co.uk/ has a header, footer
> and menu which stay the same, and the end of the url designates which page
> is to be loaded into the main area, as in this example
> http://www.jacomputers.co.uk/index.php?id=design
>
> There are many free resources on the Internet which can help you with
> learning php.
> Start here perhaps: http://snipurl.com/1iet4
>
>
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>
Thanks for taking the trouble to reply and I agree that frames are a
poor answer to the problem of layout BUT it is an answer that I largely
understand and right now the content of the site itself is taking up all
my time, running into well over 1,000 pages that all need a lot of work
doing on them. In time, as I near completion in the information that I
am presenting, I will certainly try to look for other solutions.
I think you are missunderstanding my problem though. I want to include
links to my website from outside, say on Wikipedia. So I want the same
top frame to appear and the same menu in the left frame, but I don't
want people to have to navigate from my main page through to the
relevant article. So in an article about, for instance, a station in
Manchester called Guide Bridge, I want the link to be
http://www.conceptcrafts.co.uk/british railways 1960 and then something
else to overide the instruction to put indexmain.html into the main
frame and to instead put the page relevant to Guide Bridge. Does this
make sense? I am probably explaining this badly.
Thanks anyway.
Brian.
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