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Posted by dorayme on 11/13/08 11:26
> From: Jim Scott <mr.jimscott@Xvirgin.net>
> Subject: css to replace frames
>
> Can someone help or point me towards help in replacing the following page
> which uses frames with one which uses a stylesheet instead.
> http://freespace.virgin.net/mr.jimscott/Jimspics_frames.html
> --
I am sure you know that you can't replace this page with a
stylesheet, a stylesheet is what controls the styles on the html
page. What else to do instead of frames is so big a question in
the sense of there being so many alternatives that many will
find it ... let us say... a daunting one.
What features of the present set up are you very much wanting to
preserve? If you have an open mind on this, I'd say to do the
following. Forget about thumbnails (I think they are over-rated)
and replace them with a text list floated to the left. Or have
the landscape thumbnails on the left, maybe to be followed by
the portrait ones below (or even on the right. You have not got
so many, this would make them viewable without too much
scrolling).
Have the first pic display straight off on the right (or in the
middle if you want thumbnails and you like the idea of the
portrait ones on right).
Crucially, have a html page for each pic. The same menu exactly
on left, (your content is modest and hardly needs "includes" and
fancy doodle dandy) the same code, the same everything except
for the pic. You can do fancier with each page's menu item being
in non link colour for the particular pic (if you can be
bothered, I'd say don't worry as the pic itself and caption is
enough not to cause any confusion). The css could be bog
standard... The html too...
(Just BTW, if you keep the frames for a while, may I suggest a
couple of things: the home button looks quite odd stuck up there
in a frame... and there is a way to be rid of the (imo) ugly
blue "link colour" borders to the thumbnails. You need to either
be rid of the borders "border: 0px..." in the appropriate spots.
Or make some special class of link css and have "color:something
appropriate. Put the home and next buttons in a simple right
frame where there is a nice lot of room. Just have left and
right frame. Simpler and nicer to look at.)
A few thoughts anyway Jim... (I like your pics and their size
and simple bg and do similar things myself)
dorayme
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