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But in order to keep the size of the HTML files with rollovers in the galleries to a mininimum size, I would like the buttons and my name to remain for each page without having to reload the same data after every page is visited. This was easy in flash, but I dont know how to do this in HTML.
Basically, I want to use the surrounding HTML (the buttons, my name and email, phone#), to remain for every change of page... kinduv as a frame for the interior page.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Jeff
[edited by: tedster at 4:04 am (utc) on Mar. 5, 2004]
What you are describing can be accomplished with a frameset (frames), or a page that uses an iframe (inline frame). That will give you the technical functionality you described. However, there are some ins and outs with the search engines - you will find many previous posts here about all those issues.
However, I would suggest you not go in the frames direction, but just create pages that reuse the same graphics. Most people's browsers will cache those images (plus any external css and js files your page calls) the first time the UA accesses your page.
From then on, no download is required, only a quick check with the server to ensure that the file hasn't changed since it was first cached.
