Frames

[alexanderdring]

Hi all,

I have produced two websites and I would like to have one link to the other, but with the identity of the first superimposed onto the second. Is it possible to do this with frames? Think Hotmail: when you follow a link from Hotmail, it displays the Hotmail banner in a frame at the top and the site that you are going to appears in a new frame below. Is this relatively simple to implement? I'd appreciate any help you can provide!

Thanks.

 

[Foamcow]

Yes, you would use frames, with all their "problems".

You simply need to make links from site A to site B be targetted to the frame in site A.

Set up your frameset (I'll let you google for that one ;-) ).
Lets say we assign the names "nav" and "content" to our frames.

If you want a page to load in a particular frame you would do something like

<a href="linkToExternalSite.html" target="content">

The one thing I would say is that like Hotmail you provide a way to "break out" of the frames. i.e. a link that loads the site properly, outside the frameset.

If you are the owner of both sites then fair enough, but if you are not the owner of the site being pulled into the frame then get their permission. You will be using their bandwidth remember!

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[CliveC]

alexanderdring
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People who understand framesets don't have any problem with them.

Clive

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[cLFlaVA]

and the people who really understand frames can't stand them.

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[cLFlaVA]

and before i get attacked, read this, it's got the pro's and con's according to that particular author.

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[traingamer]

Take it outside, boys. Why don't you meet in say, North Carolina, and duke it out?

Frames are neither the 'evil axis of the internet' nor the 'be all and end all' of website development. They are just another tool in the developer's toolbox (albeit a very dusty tool in mine).
And they are about the only way to answer the question posted here.

Bad websites can be developed with or without frames and with or without css.

Greg
"Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill

 

[Foamcow]

Yep.

Personally I hate them.
But for this particular question they do the job well.
Although in all my years of web development/design I have never had to do what is being asked here.

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