Help With Website

hey all, I've made a website for my friends and I to display our pics and what not.

I've used the x-gel template by studio-x and think its awesome

but I was wondering if it is possible to add frames to it. so that if the main text/content area is accidently oversized it will bring up scroll bars instead of screwing the entire layout.

this would be also be much quicker loading, and would be much easier to change a button or the sidebar, instead of changing each page.

any help is so greatly appreciated

forgot site: www.hotpony.ca

#92167

OK, tutorial time. First find out where tou want to split each part of the coding into seperate pages. By the look of it, I say Navigation (top half) and then main (bottom half). Make those separate html pages (not named "main", "index" or "default"). Now use this template

<html>

<head>
<title></title>
</head>

<frameset rows="64,*">
  <!--The first number is the height of the first frame, second is the height of the second frame-->
  <frame name="header" target="main" src="../../unavailable.html">
  <!--Target: Any links in this frame will update the main frame-->
  <frame name="main" src="../../unavailable.html">
  <noframes>
  <!-- Older browsers do not support frames, this will show-->
  <body>

  <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p>

  </body>
  </noframes>
</frameset>

</html>

and give the properties the main and nav src values.

Usefull Properties for

marginwidth/marginheight = sets margins

scrolling= (yes/no/auto) = scroll bars

PM me if you need any more help.

#92171

A good website.. that I learned a lot from when I was first learning is htmlgoodies

#92176

i was at htmlgoodies for form help, forgot about it though. i'll go there again too, thanks wizard i'll try that out

#92178

Just a tip for your rollovers : try and keep the text in one place and just changing the background, it produces a much cleaner result. You can do this by putting the text in a layer above the background of the button (the bit which gets highlighted) and just changing the background layer.

And for the logo, u might wanna put a 1px greyish border around the "hotpony.ca" bit to get rid of the jagged edge effect.

Other than that, nice clean site, its just those little things that turn a good site into a great site! (one of my passtimes is to sit down with other designers and critically analyze sites, we've seen some shockers i tell ya, but yours is goin nicely)

:rule: Rock on

#92208

Best HTML Beginner Site Ever: Funky Chickens

I learned a lot from that. Then i got dreamweaver. And i sort of figured out all the codes that i didn't know by looking at page sources of other sites.

#92328

The best way to make frame is using dreamweaver.....You can do all types of frames even by using a template by sniper-x.....

#92340

i'll try dreamweaver, i've been mainly using frontpage.

i'm beginning to learn html for myself now too, so all in all, this is becoming easier, but that template is a killer

#92341

Originally posted by corykg@Dec 26 2003, 08:27 AM
i'll try dreamweaver, i've been mainly using frontpage.

i'm beginning to learn html for myself now too, so all in all, this is becoming easier, but that template is a killer

Yeah, good for you...you can compare which one is better.....you can try dreamweaver for 30 days free and if you like it.....just bought it.....for me dreamweaver is the best tools in designing and maintaining website.

#92352