Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 04/27/07 16:28

Brian Robertson wrote:

> 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.

No Brian I think you are misunderstanding the situation, with frames
externally linking or bookmarking specific site becomes nearly
impossible because the outermost frame is only linkable. It is one of
the *big* problems with frames. To overcome this limitation requires either

A) Clever JavaScript processing which is a *bad* idea to depend on
client-side scripting for navigation

B) Server-side processing e.g.,
www.conceptcrafts.co.uk?page=britishrailways1960

The thing is either solution would require a *major overhaul* of your
site and if your chose (B) server-side solution, the way you *should* do
it, then you would not need the frames at all! You could use server-side
to assemble the parts of the page, navigation banner and content,
eliminating the *need* for frames.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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