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[domestic]

OK. Heres what I'd like to happen.

I have a nice fancy image across the top, then some items in left and right panes, and the main content in the middle. Unfortunatly, this is being a bit or a nuasance!

My problems are:

1-I can't get IE of Firefox to accept the frame sizes i give
2-I wanted to place a large image across the top of the page above all 3 lower frames. Unfortunatly, the frameset has also split the top row and now I can't get images to join up correctly.

My reasons for frames are that in the left and right bars are content that is updated almost daily, if not more. So I figured frames would make sense as I update the frames once, and they are updated everywhere on website. I've seen it done properly on other pages, but how....:confused:

If there is some other way I should do it (php, js, asp :confused:) that would let me do this then please, let me know.

Thanks

Domestic

[John]

Frames are absolutely horrible, I hate them and stay away from them at all costs. The only type of frame that comes in handy once and a while is the iframe...

Anyway, I would recommend PHP - its fairly trivial to do what your looking for. Everything can be pretty much accomplished with a single function: require_once

Just "require" a a certain file [menu.php] on all your pages, and simply editing menu.php, all your pages will be updated. I think there is a basic tutorial on this in our PHP Tutorials Section.

[domestic]

cheers mate! Will look this up!

Thanks!

[domestic]

yeh. Have done the whole site in php. Been a learning experience and good fun! Plus, it works :D

[TcM]

Well they are not so good imo, you should use php you can include other php files instead of including other pages in frames, it's better!