Hello all,

I am trying to create a webpage where I can veiw other pages within a parent page. I have a logo and navigation bar that I use for all the other pages in the site and would like to display this as a border around some of the other sites that I want to link to. I know you can do this with frames but I was wondering if there was any other way to achieve this. I'm thinking there probably isn't. The solution could involve scripts or ASP if that matters.

Thanks in advance,
Mike

There are a lot of ways you can do this. I would suggest using ASP or PHP. You might have better luck using PHP since there is an abundance of free code and tutorials out there. Check these sites out:

• Theme Your Website Once and Forever! by phpfreak
  http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/8/0.php
  

For Database-driven sites and template systems see these:

• Template-Based Web Development With patTemplate by Team Melonfire
  http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/P...te1/page1.html
  
• Building A Quick-And-Dirty PHP/MySQL Publishing System by icarus
  http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/P...ing/page1.html
  
• Web Development With PHP FastTemplate by icarus
  http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/P...ate/page1.html
  

Best Regards,
Dan Jallits

Or - if you can do server side includes, you could do that.
eg:




This way the server parses the pages, so if you need to change the nav, or footer, it gets changes site wide, rather than having to change everything.

I think this might be an Apache only thing - not entirely sure.

It really comes in handy though. For an example, www.monash.edu.au
It uses this for all the header and footer content.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary - and those with friends

Thanks for the input, but I'm I don't think I explained my problem very well. I would like to display sombody elses site within the nav bar/graphics border of my own site.

For example I want to have my homepage show up that has a nav bar on the left and our logo on the top. Then when someone clicks the microsoft link on the nav bar I want the page from www.microsoft.com to show up inside my nav bar and logo. Can I do this without frames?

You can try an iframe. It looks like this:

<IFRAME src = "http://address/index.htm"
width = "100%"
height = "250"
scrolling = "no"
frameborder = "0"
></IFRAME>



Mark P.

Hi,

iFrames work pretty much the same as frames. Is the another way of embedding a page within a page?

You have no access to SSI, PHP, ASP, or anything like that?

Snib

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Why don't you want to use frames? the obvious way around using frames is to include these logo's etc in each html file but I would use frames as these pictures would be loading with every page. you could use frames and just redirect to the one without frames for noframes users if it's a compatability issue.