avoiding use of frames

[pagey_3]

I'm redesigning one of our company sites and am changing it to be consistent with the design of another of our sites.

We have 3 different product offerings, and my boss wants a 'wizard' of sorts. He wants on the home page a 'start using today' icon, wich opens up a step by step process so that you get the product most suited to your needs - however, he wants this 'wizard' to open in the central column, but the rest of the page to stay the same around it and not reload - the only way I can think to do this is using frames, but this would ruin our SEO.

Has anyone got any ideas how I could do this without using frames? any advice much appreciated!

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[edited by: tedster at 6:35 pm (utc) on Feb. 4, 2005]

[rocknbil]

Well it's not a great solution, but look into using hidden layers. When the link is clicked it sets the style for that layer as visible. This makes the page Javascript-dependent though.

[tedster]

Another difference with hidden layers is that this approach requires ALL the potentially visible content to be on the same html document. From an SEO perspective, I find frames much better to work with than those overloaded pages.

[vkaryl]

There are still occasions where frames make way more sense than whatever's in second place.... this is probably one of them - UNLESS you can provide a viable, logical, attractive alternative for your boss.