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To Frame or Table, that is the question!

         

Dazzystar0011

5:22 pm on Jul 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hi Everyone,

I am a newbie and need to get a site up as quickly as possible. All I need to build is a Welcome screen with an 'ENTER SITE' button then another page with a top and left bar. The central frame / cell is linked to another website for online ordering...I'm an affiliate and the hyperlink has my dealer number!

Looking forward to your replies!

hakre

5:30 pm on Jul 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

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hi Dazzystar0011,

if it should be done quickly and you don't have got php or asp on the server, then frames might reduce the work in creating the html files.

if you got php or similar, including the left- and top-bar, table might be a better choice for compability and SEs.

- hakre

Dazzystar0011

5:51 pm on Jul 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

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PHP....ASP

What is that!

hakre

8:00 pm on Jul 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



it's a script-language. if a page is requested, you can create it on the fly and based on the request.

nevertheless, something which might work also and is in the same direction a server side includes, called ssi.

these techniques can be used to create your pages in a more modularized ways, let's say the left-bar is one element, the top-bar another and the page content changes, so left- and top-bar can be saved into single files each and the content page can grab them and place them in the place to be.

you won't need frames then where it would be quite the same: one file for left, one for top and a file for the content.

could you understand this?

Dazzystar0011

8:04 pm on Jul 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



NO!

All you've managed to do is to confuse me even more!

SORRY!

hakre

9:17 pm on Jul 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



sorry about confusing you. if you do not know something about php, asp etc. i think the best way you can do is to create a frameset.

-hakre