Frame alternative???

[lady_naruto]

hi all.., ms. nOOB hir.,

i've recently created an intranet site for our project. however when viewed by other computers the FRAMES were messed up... i've search this forum and found out that its best not to use frames at all... my question now is.. what is the alternative to this?? i mean i still want my nav buttons and banners and when clicked on them i want to show the content on the space below? (bottom_frame)

can CSS do this...

im sorry.. im so newbie, and im still studying asp.net

thanks in advance.

 

[Brian]

Hmm I take it your using frames mainly to just keep the links in a seperate file so if you add pages to the site you don't have to edit each file ? This can be accomplished without frames using Server Side Includes

 

[markkk]

hey ms noob! welcome to namepros!

 

[lady_naruto]

Thanks for the reply mr. Brian.. and thank you for the welcome mr. Markkk..

Mr. Brian., you're right. i dont want the hassle of editing each page..well, at most, i just want to keep the navigation on the top frame.

regarding the server side includes... can you give me a brief overview of this??? or the links to a good introduction??? and can you refer me to a sample site that uses server side include?

thank you.

cheers!

 

[lemmin]

if you use dreamweaver you can make the links page a template, then whenever you change something, it will change it for all your webpages. I'm sure other programs can do this too.

I personally don't see anything wrong with iFrames though. Have you looked into those? My site functions identically to that of a page that wasnt using frames. Scepticists have yet to give me a reason not to use them that I havn't found a workaround for.

Also, you mentioned CSS. Although I have never tried it, I'm sure it's possible to just create the different pages as tables in divs and each link makes its respective div visible and the others hidden. Might get kinda messy to work with though.

 

[dre]

I think iframes sucks.. this is what you do, make a new document called navigation.html and put all your links there, then do if have php

<? include "navigation.html"; ?>

to include where you want the nav to display. One change in this file can change you hole site :d

 

[Brian]

I think iframes sucks.. this is what you do, make a new document called navigation.html and put all your links there, then do if have php

<? include "navigation.html"; ?>

to include where you want the nav to display. One change in this file can change you hole site :d

I believe the site is asp based, not php based, since she mentions Asp.NET in the original post. I am looking for a method to do this with ASP.NET. I do not use .NET so others might be better to answer your questions.

Regards
Brian

 

[Rowan W]

Includes are the way to go.

http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_incfiles.asp

 

[lady_naruto]

thank you guys for replying... i better study includes then... going to check out the link.

thank you and cheers.