Posted by saz on 12/16/05 01:03

In article <aumof.82$GS2.5527@news.uswest.net>,
noemail@nofreakingemail.net says...
> Hi,
>
> I'm creating a personal website with a titlebar and menu on the top, a
> table of contents on the left, and the main content in the middle.
>
> I'm fairly new to html, but I am learning bits and pieces as I go along.
> I mainly use Nvu, and then go in and tweak things in the source editor
> or in notepad, based on whatever html knowledge I can figure out through
> web research.
>
> Right now I have no frames -- my titlebar and table of contents are
> reproduced on every page of my site. This works fine, except when I
> want to add or change something in the table of contents, I have to do
> it again in every single page. Frames would be better, but this seems a
> bit advanced for my knowledge of html.
>
> Nvu doesn't seem to have frameset options, but maybe I'm just missing
> something? I'd like to set up the frames through WSIWYG, and then tweak
> them in the source (learning as I go).
>
> Any advice? Also, is there a way to make the background image cover the
> entire page (spanning across frames), or do I need each frame to have
> its own background?
>
> Thanks,
> chris.

Do not use frames!!!

Go here for an excellent tutorial:

http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_include_one_html_file_inside_another.html

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