Hello everyone. I am hoping someone can help me with this problem I am faced with on my new site design.

I have a page named Pre-Orders.asp which loads all pre-order dvd's from a access database. The Primary Key for the dvd records is "DVDID". The Pre-Orders.asp is a non-frames page. Within in each pre-order dvd that is listed is the url in which a user can click on to order the dvd through my amazon.com affiliation. However in a way to minimize departure from my site I would like to set the link of each dvd that is able to be ordered to load my page named "Frames.asp" which has a upper frame named "topframe" for the logo / navigation menu to my site and the lower frame named "mainframe".

The column name for the url in which the user should be directed to based on the content from my access database is "BuyURL".

Okay so here is the step by step break down in which i'm looking to achieve here:

1. User loads Pre-Orders.asp
2. User sees dvd which is desired and clicks the link associated with that dvd.
3. Execution of the link loads "Frames.asp" and redirects the "mainframe" page named "Redirect.asp" to the url bound to that DVD in which he/she selected.

I greatly appreciate any help from anyone out there so i can get this headache to go away once and for all.

David Watson

I havnt used frames for a very long time now (people still use frames? - just kidding) An anchor tag has a target property, simply put the name of destination frame in the target value. If you Google 'using links in frames' it will become clear.
You say:
;;;However in a way to minimize departure from my site...
There are other ways to do this - FYI google 'why are frames so bad' also

Wind is your friend
Matt

Point taken. I have learned that google as well as other search engines cannot read the contents of a frameset. Frames has effectivly been removed from my site for good.

Thanks a million Matt.

You are welcome:

Being fair to those who still use them. Frames can be created well, please let me add - In my experience, that was my opinion.

Wind is your friend
Matt