some questions on frames...

[Life36]

Hey fellas, I was wondering if I could get a little help with this frame thing I'm trying to do. OK, if you take a look at my site, you'll see I have this green bar on the top and left of the page, and a navigation bar with links on the left side. The green bar and navigation bar reload everytime a link is clicked.

What I would like to do, and I'm not sure if it's possible, is make the green border on the top and left into a frame, and have the content load without the frame ever changing. Is it possible to make a frame out of this green bar with the curve still in it? Or if a frame is made, does it absolutely have to have a 90 degree angle on the inside?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Edit: By the way, I used Microsoft Publisher 2003 to originally create the site, and I'm using Dreamweaver MX 2004 to make any changes necessary. It's fair to say that I know close to nothing about html code, or any code for that matter.

[drisley]

No, its not possible to have curved frames. You could, though, create a side frame and a top frame, then split that big middle image up so that the curved part is in the top frame. You'd need to have zero margin frames to make that look OK.

Frames might not be the way to go for your particular site.

[Life36]

Thanks for the advice. So, are there any other options that I'm not aware of to accomplish my goal? Layers or tables or anything like that?

If not, no big deal. I think if that's the reality of it, maybe I'd just make a no margin left side frame, and insert this nifty little navbar with pop-up menus that I made with Fireworks.

[mairving]

Frames have very little used nowadays and are very dated. Originally there prime function was to allow you to have a header or left menu and have that part fixed so that it didn't have to reload that part of the page. This reduced some of the page download time and made it easier to change your navs since you only had to update one page.

You can do a curve quite easily. Usually just create the image in your favorite graphic program like fireworks and then chop it into pieces.

If I were you, I would also recode the site. The html is very bulky and dirty and will cause problems because of this. It is typical of what you would expect from Publisher. The site has some major problems in other browsers.

That was then. Now there are much better, cleaner ways of doing that same thing. The majority of time it is done through some kind of an include file using PHP, ASP or SSI. I prefer the PHP includes or using a template file for all of the pages.