Posted by Brian Robertson on 04/27/07 20:46

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> 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.
>

Superb people. Yes, it was me that was getting the wrong end of the
stick and now I understand exactly where I am at and the importance of
dumping frames. How and when I can is another matter.

Thanks again for answering my question and putting up with my dumbness.

Brian.

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