frontpage courses - Frames ability

Hi Jinat,

You've chosen quite a complicated set up. Remember, the more frames you have, the more complicated navigation is going to be to control and use.

It may be easier to use an include file or library item instead of your second top frame. Each main page that gets loaded has the appropriate include file at the top, which the visitor can use to browse within the main frame.

I did find it hard to follow what you're trying to do, even after reading a couple of times. Do you have a live site I could have a look at to understand more clearly?

There are ways to change the source (page) of all frames in your frameset. Dreamweaver has a built in behaviour called GoToURL, where you can specify which source (page) loads in to which frame. This will allow your visitors to click 'contact us' on the left sidebar, and the mainFrame load the contact us page, but also the 2nd top frame display the 'About us' topnav sections.

What you're experiencing is a too deeper frameset, and I can't help without really looking at the code. If you can provide the URL, I may be able to take a look, or this may be a consultancy requirement.

I'd also recommend considering templates or include files as an alternative to frames.

Frames are useful when the content you want in a frame is a very long list (eg. a huge table of contents), but if it's just 10 or 20 links on the side, templates are the way forward.

Regards, Rich