Posted by mbstevens on 01/07/06 18:21

EricJapan wrote:
> Hey everyone
>
> I'm trying to build my next generation website about Japanese video
> games. I built my first one using frames, but I often want to provide
> an outside link to a specific system that's buried pretty deep within
> the site. Obviously with frames I can't do that...
>
> What's the latest info on the best way to make navigation bars that
> still allow for that? What does a common person as myself (not a pro
> web designer) usually use? I just want the standard left frame (or
> similar) with links to the different categories in my site, nothing
> fancy. I'd also like the ability to bookmark specific pages.
>
> I built my first site with FrontPage, mostly by trial and error. I'm
> building my new site with Dreamweaver and I'm reading Dreamweaver
> unleashed. I'm basically self taught and self studied so there are
> some gaps in my knowledge.
>
> I was going to make a template with an iframe, possibly put into a
> table or a layer. Any thoughts or tips would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
Just put the navigation on every page:
Preprocess the pages or generate them.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/links/preprocessors.html
http://learn.perl.org/
http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/beyond/ssi.html
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mbstevens
http://www.mbstevens.com/preprocessor/index.html

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