Non MajorMUD Question, Frames in Webpages [Archive] - ForumsHQ

[Necrosaro420]

Sorry for off the topic post, but does anyone know of any good sites that shows you how to make frames on webpages? Or do you have a template that I could get? Sorry again, Thanks

[MrBlack]

Well, you could just goto any page that uses frames, and click View-Source (in IE) or View-Show Source (in nutscrape, i think thats how it is). OR if you have pagemill, pagemaker, image ready, frontpage or one of those other do it for you html editors, you could just select frames and there you go ;)

But, I guess I'll be nice and tell you exactly how:

Viewing this page requires a browser that supports frames. If you do not have such a browser, then view this page in our non frames format here.

ok, just cut and paste that into a page called index.html, and your set, just make some changes to the frameset cols attributes. you can either make the size in pixels or in a % of the screen width (more standard) you can have as many cols as you want. You can also do rows, just be careful what order you put the rows/cols when writing the code framespacing is also a pixels value, normally 0-5, anything more is just ugly, and remember to take that value into consideration when making your column/row widths cuz that will fuk them up.. frameborder is either on or off, 1 or 0. The frame src's dont have to be named that, I usually name one nav.html and main.html and name them Nav or Main as well, less confusing. The name is used so that when you target a link to open in one of the frames, you target it into that name (like in the nav, you would base target="main")

The body content is for those underpriveledged enough to be using older software. Frames didnt start getting used until around IE3 or 4, cant remember, so anything older (which is still used, amazingly) wont see frames. I added the link in the body so those same people could view a non frames version of the site (should always do that, just courtesy

There are a shit load more attributes and flags for the frameset commands, but this is all you should need to know...

Oh, and yes, this was offtopic ;)

[Necrosaro420]

Kewl thanks, you da man =) PS I needa talk to ya if your on in morning in ICQ. Thanks Again

[Aragon]

It's not the "off topic" post that I mind... it's that you want to actually use frames on your website?!?! :confused:

Duuuude. Frames suck ;)

:cool:

[Necrosaro420]

Well im pretty stupid when it comes to HTML, and I couldnt figure out how to make like a small menu to the left of the screen, and have it on the same page as normal stuff IE Like on this website http://eq.castersrealm.com

[MrBlack]

Well, dude, you could use TABLES

Create a table with the left column being your navigation, and just put all your content in the column to the right, pretty much the same as frames, just a little easier to code, cuz you create your index page, and use it as a template for the rest, changing content and title, then save as the new page ;)

Goto my page, and you will see an example, just view source on my index page. Of course, on mine, I made a kickass graphic for navigation, but if you have photoshop or imageready, then you can do that too (actually, can do it with paintbrush, i just wouldnt recommend it, cuz then it'd look like shit as a bmp ;)

drop me a line and i might just help ya out some more...

[Aragon]

Don't know how to use tables?!?! :shocked::shocked::shocked:

I don't think there is a single "quality" website built w/o tables! (well except for those build entirely in flash.... ;))

Quote:

HI!

Hi to the right of "HI!"

HI below "HI!" and "Hi to the righ..."

heh. just copy and paste that code...

= create a new table (duhh)

= row

= data (or cell, or column)

DATA

= end data (or cell, or column)

= next column..

...

= end row

= next row

etc..

if that even makes sense..

www.w3schools.org i think used to be a nice wbesite for webmasters.. i can seem to open it up now.. maybe the addy is wrong..

just search for "html tables tutorial"..

Any decent webmaster should have a good grasp on tables.

:cool:

oh and "colspan =2" is to make the bottom row span 2 columns, because i created 2 in the first row and each row after that would "inherit" those 2 columns, so you have to make it basically not do that by using the colspan.

[MrBlack]

Hehehehe

I was goign to make him plead and beg for information on how to make tables

[Raybdbomb]

j00 suxx0r

[Xetox]

Or you could just check out WebMonkey (http://www.webmonkey.com) A great learning tool for html!