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I'm a newbie to all this so please make allowances for my lack of knowledge.
My problem is this, having read through the forum for a couple of days it seems that one of the many things I need to address if I want to do well on the natural listings is to establish a good PR value.
Now I constructed my first ever website a few weeks ago using Microsoft Frontpage. The design I have used is a frames site, accessed through a single home/index/entry page.
I originally had no such page, choosing instead to launch everybody directly into the Frames Section of the site, unfortunately however, I found that some elements of my design were, without my initial knowledge, powered by Java, which meant that some visitors were unable to access further. I therefore bolted on the entry page, complete with a download link should they have difficulty.
So my questions therefore are: (A) How can I dump the Java and make my site accessible to all? (B)What would be the most efficient page/link design for a frames website. (i.e. should I be adding links back to the homepage on the pages themselves or is it ok to just leave it as yet another link on the contents frame?
Sorry to be so long winded.
Regards
Slow_Burn
Plain HTML is best.
And replace it with what?
That depends on what the Java is being used for. For things like buttons, etc., most effects can be achieved using Javascript (no relation to Java) which pretty well all browsers support.
With regard to frames, that's another one that depends on what you are attempting to do, but for menus and things like that, you can lay things out with tables or divs.
You'll learn fairly quickly to cringe at frames and all the problems they bring, but that's for another day :P
Whats the most efficent structure?
If it's pretty and easy to use then that's as efficient as anyone could want :)
HTH
-- James
