Frames - unskilled, never used them

**autumn whispers2me** · 06-23-2005, 10:45 AM

But I'd like to make a scrollable section of the new section to one of my sites. I'm going to "hopefully" make some teeshirts and prints of the 'southern style' digital art and photos I make... hoping to sell them to the tourists who come here, and locals maybe.

Anyway, I created a VERY plain jane section that, if I make any money from this stuff, will be it's own domain one day. But I don't know if I'm thinking too 'small' or not.

What would be nice is to be able to make frames inside the center portion where the text is so that I could fit more information without expanding the slices, etc.

I may be way off on my approach to this, but I really like the design and feel for what I want to do.

Here's the link to the pages: http://www.autumnwhisperstome.com/telanoctudesigns.html

Is it possible to make that text area scrollable, and possibly for it to look right on all browsers? I don't want much, do I?

Oh, and I've decided I've found the exact logo I like, the one on the splash page. So when does a person "have" to consider a trademark to protect their logo, name, etc.? they're very expensive, around $700 so I want to know what I'm in for if I'm trying to earn income from this.

**wasahobo** · 06-23-2005, 02:29 PM

Well i know a simple way to do that would be by using a iframe, i use them for my site since i want what you did.. you can see what it would look like at

www.xn-studios.com

what program do you use to code you site ?

**Fragalot** · 06-23-2005, 10:21 PM

come on msn / yim sometime, i'll explain ya real smooth, with great guidelines / help

and yeh, hobo, iframes are the best way to make it look nice

*my instuctions will be useable for notepad*

Quote:

Originally Posted by frags_iframe_tut

this is the code for the iframe, put it where you want the content to go.

Code:

<iframe src="homecontent.htm" width="250" height="460" name="content" border="0">
This message shows when iframes are not supported by the users browser
</iframe>

Then you put the target in your links like this:

Code:

 
<a href="contact.htm" target="content">Contact</a>

so when the link is clicked, the iframe named 'content' will replace the content put into the file 'homecontent.htm' with the content you have put into the file named 'contact.htm'

well, that's pretty much all there's to it

**autumn whispers2me** · 06-24-2005, 01:50 AM

Thanks, Hobo & Frag.

You guys rule.

I'm assuming I replace the "homecontent.htm" with the name of the page I want to use as the mail page? I'm a little confused on that.

Also, what happens if the visitor's browser doesn't recognize iframe? Is the content inaccessible?

Hobo: I use Araneae for editing, but I do have Dreamweaver MX.

**Fragalot** · 06-24-2005, 03:09 AM

just put a link in the area where you show the text for the persons who can't view em with a page w/o iframes.

and yes, you got it right.

homecontent.html is the page that's shown from the start.

**autumn whispers2me** · 06-24-2005, 03:10 AM

Okay. Thanks.

Do you know which browsers don't support iframes?

**Sean** · 06-24-2005, 03:56 AM

all the latest browsers support iframes

**autumn whispers2me** · 06-24-2005, 05:19 AM

Wow, thanks Griffin.

Glad to know. I'm having trouble with something, however. I can get the content to fit (had to figure that out.. lol), but if I make the content's height taller/longer, the width also expands.

On the pages where the contents are short/brief enough not to force scrolling in the framed section, everything's fine. But when the contents forces a scroll, then it also expands horizontally as well. I'm stumped by this.

Examples would be to compare the "About..." and, say, "Toys."

http://www.autumnwhisperstome.com/telanoctu_main.html click on the "toys" link, then click on the "about..." link that's on the right of the main content section.

Also, border for the iframe is set to "0" but a border is still showing (using FF). I've not tried this in IE yet to see if it's a FF thing or not. Any clues?

**wasahobo** · 06-24-2005, 07:49 AM

Like griff said pretty much every can see iframes now

I use Microsoft Frontpage for coding (yes i can hear you laughing griffy)

if you have any questions or need some help you can PM me or my msn is

waz_up_911@yahoo.com

hope it works out for ya

**autumn whispers2me** · 06-24-2005, 08:20 AM

thanks, Hobo... right now I'm just having trouble making it all work in FF and IE.

Seems like IE does something weird, and the border shows no matter what I do.