Dynamic menu help

"Chris45" <sat_ring@(cutitout)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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 > Hi ,
 > Trying to get a menu working for sometime now have wasted money on stupid
<font color=purple> > software etc.Now have been trying out a freebee from <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com,</font" target="_blank">www.dynamicdrive.com,</font</a>>
 > but have one or two question. It's properly better if I was to show you it
 > so have uploaded it to with a couple of question.
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://teaup.port5.com/test/</font" target="_blank">http://teaup.port5.com/test/</font</a>>
 >
 > This is where my problem starts how do I make the menu veawable over this
 > frame ?
 > Then the next problem is how would one make the link HOME open in the main
 > frame?
 >
 > Cheers
 > Chris
 >

Simple. Put the coding for the menu in the proper frame.
in your case, inside of "main.htm".

You can navigate home in one of two ways.
Link as you would any page, or, use [target="_self"].

<a href="http://www.test.com/index.htm">
<a href="http://www.test.com/index htm" target="_self"><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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"Chris45" <sat_ring@(cutitout)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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 > Hi ,
 > Trying to get a menu working for sometime now have wasted money on stupid
<font color=purple> > software etc.Now have been trying out a freebee from <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com,</font" target="_blank">www.dynamicdrive.com,</font</a>>
 > but have one or two question. It's properly better if I was to show you it
 > so have uploaded it to with a couple of question.
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://teaup.port5.com/test/</font" target="_blank">http://teaup.port5.com/test/</font</a>>
 >
 > This is where my problem starts how do I make the menu veawable over this
 > frame ?
 > Then the next problem is how would one make the link HOME open in the main
 > frame?
 >
 > Cheers
 > Chris
 >

Also noticed one other thing, there should be no coding on the frameset page
other than the names of the frameset.
Your banner frame needs to be a seperate file, as does your content page..
So in essence you have 3 files.
1) frameset.html
2) banner.html
3) content.html

The frameset page merely joins everything together.
The menu itself would be placed on your content page.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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William Starr Moake <wsmoake.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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 > It is viewable over the main frame, but the submenus don't display
 > correctly in IE 6.0. Don't know why except a lot of things that worked
 > in IE4-5.5 don't work in IE 6.0. You might try eliminating the doctype
 > just to see if that helps (if you're using IE 6.0)
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Thanks will give it a try when I get home tonight.
IE 5.5 here.

Regards
Chris<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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"Chris45" <sat_ring@(cutitout)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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 > Hi ,
 > Trying to get a menu working for sometime now have wasted money on stupid
<font color=purple> > software etc.Now have been trying out a freebee from <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com,</font" target="_blank">www.dynamicdrive.com,</font</a>>
 > but have one or two question. It's properly better if I was to show you it
 > so have uploaded it to with a couple of question.
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://teaup.port5.com/test/</font" target="_blank">http://teaup.port5.com/test/</font</a>>
 >
 > This is where my problem starts how do I make the menu veawable over this
 > frame ?
 > Then the next problem is how would one make the link HOME open in the main
 > frame?
 >
Simple really, DONT use frames! Both problems solved!

If you must use frames then make the top one bigger - to accomadate the open
menu.

Better yet - DONT use frames

To make any link open in the main frame you need to set the target attribute
in your anchor tag something like
Home<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Bill Logan <blogan DeleteThis @clear.net.nz> wrote in message
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 > "Chris45" <sat_ring@(cutitout)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I us frames as not to reload the whole page which cuts down on bandwidth .

Re:Home
Iit's not quite that simply with this type of menu,I just wish it was.

Regards
Chris<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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cutitout wrote:

 > I us frames as not to reload the whole page which cuts down on bandwidth .

If duplicating the content on every page uses too much bandwidth then you
probably are suffering from at least one of the following problems:

(1) You server is not configured to send suitable cache control headers so
images and external files are reloaded each time.

(2) You have CSS and or JavaScript mixed in with the HTML instead of in
external files with <script src> or <link> to call it in.

(3) You have too many links, this is confusing for users too - break them in
to groups and show only a subset on pages.

(4) You are using heavily nested tables for layout - switch to CSS.

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