Paul M. Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:31:41 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Kim Lester wrote:
> Marc Britten wrote:
> >
> > "Paul M. Foster" wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Kim Lester wrote:
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > 2) I have created some web pages which I have
> > > > placed on my server for the moment whilst
> > > > we debate them.
> > > >
> > > > Have a look and let me know what you think.
> > > > And if you don't like something, give me something
> > > > better.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Small point: remove the frames. They're not Lynx-friendly and in general
> > > amongst professional web designers, I think they're deprecated.
> >
> > isn't there a way to put a page in place of a frame set, what i mean to
> > say is
> >
> > if the browser doesn't support frames, can't the base page w/ the
> > frameset definitions put a different page up?
>
>
> Hmmm, well maybe I'll think this one through before I remove the frames
> after all.
> There is a <NOFRAMES> section which complements a frames section.
> If the broswer doesn't support frames then the <NOFRAMES> section
> is displayed instead (automatically ??).
> The only issue I guess is that I'd then have to add at least
> some navigation info to the pages. Maybe just "Home" and "Index"
> would suffice.
>
There are lots of ways to do navbars with tables. You can see our website,
which just has links to pages in a table. I built perl scripts and use a
makefile to rebuild the pages whenever I change content. Main content
changes but the rest of the page stays the same. (Probably more trouble
than you want to go through, but an example of what can be done.)
Or COLUG's site (they're a little fancier, using PHP3 on the backside, I
think):
http://stones.wcbe.org/~COLUG/
Or the best site of all, the HTML Writers Guild Site:
The HWG site does the coolest pages, all without the use of Java, frames
or anything else-- just HTML.
Paul M. Foster
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