Splitting a web site

[CHayes1126]

I am using dream weaver 8... what I am trying to do may sound confusing but, im trying to create the top half of my web site as a header... then the bottom half changes to different pages once you click a link in the header. But I want the header to stay at the top. I dont know if this is possible or not. The reason is, my header is flash and I dont want it to reload every time someone clicks a link. So I would like it to stay put and just the bottom half of my site change.

[freddiej]

You can look into using iFrames but this doesn't help on the SEO side. AJAX may also be an option but uses javascript so may lose out if someone doesn't have it installed on their machine. Again, not the best for SEO.

I'm no expert in it by any means but have a look at the google results and you may get an idea what you can do

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...G=Search&meta=

[cypher1919]

With Dreamweaver you can just design the header and sidebars(if applicable) then save as a template. I've done this with a few sites. I used flash for fonts on headers so it wouldn't matter whether or not the end user had them installed on their machine. PM me and I'll give you a link for an example.

[Force Flow]

You can look at SSI (server side includes) or look into what ever server-side language is supported by your web server.

there's a limit to what you can do with client-side languages without over complicating things.

[itsgt]

Originally Posted by CHayes1126 I am using dream weaver 8... what I am trying to do may sound confusing but, im trying to create the top half of my web site as a header... then the bottom half changes to different pages once you click a link in the header. But I want the header to stay at the top. I dont know if this is possible or not. The reason is, my header is flash and I dont want it to reload every time someone clicks a link. So I would like it to stay put and just the bottom half of my site change.

You are talking about a frameset.

This makes the the webpage act as 2-3 seperate browsers. You reference the targeted page from the top page and when the user clicks on the link the bottom page changes to the desired page, while the header reamains the same.

You should also make sure that you set the the NORESIZE Attribute to the column so the users cannot adjust the header

[glc]

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