Posted by Chaddy2222 on 12/16/05 02:12

Alabaster wrote:

> 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?
No. NVU doesn't support frames. It tries to be cross browser
compaddable so frames are no good for that:
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?

The only way t have frames in NVU is to use CSS to achieve something
that looks like a frame. But that is not recomended eather.
Take a look @ http://www.forum.nvudev.org
You may get more specific NVU advice there.
> Thanks,
> chris.
No problems.
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Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc

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