Posted by David Dorward on 12/16/05 01:01

Alabaster wrote:

> Right now I have no frames -- my titlebar and table of contents are
> reproduced on every page of my site.

Good.

> 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.

Frames have lots of problems, avoid them.
http://allmyfaqs.net/faq.pl?Problems_with_using_frames

There are plenty of other techniques for including common content in
multiple pages.

http://allmyfaqs.net/faq.pl?Include_one_file_in_another

> 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?

Background images cannot span frames.

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