Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 03/12/07 13:53

Scripsit Jon Slaughter:

> I'm learing html and I have a nav bar that I want to always be
> displayed on the top of the page.

Stop wanting that.

When you have more than one content page, create a main page that contains
links to the content pages, and make the content pages link to the main
page.

Later, consider asking whether it would be useful to have a nav bar on every
page, and learn that the answer is probably "No". But if you decide
otherwise, design the navigation bar so that it need not be changed more
often than once in a decade, so that you can copy it onto every page (if you
can't use or don't know how to use or don't want to use server-side
includes).

> Should I use frames or div?

No.

> I was thinking of including the nav bar on every page linked by it
> but that seems kinda redundant(I know the browser will cache the
> images but I still think its kinda redundant to do because there are
> better ways).

Don't even think of using images for navigation.

> But maybe I'm missing something?

Yes. Try to find a good book on web design.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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