browse within a frame?

how do i do this?

[tUjtUj]

This is for people with learning difficulties.
i want to create a simple text based web page (on local hard disk) that displays a list of instructions telling them how to browse the internet. OK i can do that bit, for simplicity for the users i want to have a live web site displayed in this page (maybe in a frame?) for simplicity i want only the one page open (no other windows) these people have real problems so it must require minimal user intervention.

I am not very experienced so help me guys, dont assume i know to much.

Thanks in advance, tUjtUj

[BlobFisk]

Welcome to WebMasterWord tUjtUj!

You could split the page into 2 frames, one on the left and one on the right. The one on the left could be your explainatory text, and the page on the right could be your live website.

For some online tutorials on Frames, some of these links could help:

Frames: an Introduction [wp.netscape.com]
Frames Tutorial [htmlgoodies.com]
Framing the Web [webreference.com]

If you run into any difficulties, don't hesitate to ask!

[Dreamquick]

You pretty much hit the nail on the head with the subject line, what you want is two frames within a frameset.

A quick search on something like "how build frameset frame" (the first result on google looks pretty much dead on) will turn up explanations of how to do something like this in far better detail than I am capable of giving...

With a frameset you would have two files(pages); one defining the frameset and state which page/site each frame should start at and one containing your instructions. When you build the frameset you can tell it to have two frames, one of which holds your instructions and the other should show a live website.

These frames will act as two seperate pages which can be used independently of each other, and as long as neither page tries to override the frameset they will stay this way.

- Tony

[kris]

Welcome to Webmasterworld tUjtUj!

I am not exactly sure what your question is but I will see if I can take a stab at it.

If you have left navigation in a frameset and you want a link in that frame to open a page in the main frame (or any other for that matter) you simply add a "target" to the link like this:

<a href="instructions.htm" target="MainFrame">Instructions</a>

Set the target to the name of the frame you want the page to open up in.

Did that help?

[mack]

You could try using an iframe... this would allow you to have a start page enbeded within your descriptive page.

[tUjtUj]

WOW, thanks for the replies everybody, where else can you get response times like this?

Yeah lots of things for me to try now, i will check back in case of more replies but short of writing the thing for me you guys have come up with the goods. thanks again, tUjtUj