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ron3d · 26-09-2006, 00:53

Hello,

I am more of an cg artist than a web designer, so I came up with the basic way I wanted my site to look. However, navigation and loading aren't quite up to par with other sites. What I want is ...resizeable frames and easy navigation. Please look at www.ron3d.com. Right now, all I have are sliced .jpgs making up every page. I want to keep the appearance as close the design I have as possible, but have 1 frame for navigation, one for secondary navigation, and the other as my gallery/blog area. But the frames I see split the entire webspace area, and won't conveniently fit into a custom size table cell.

In a nutshell, this is my wish list:

- Better main navigation (loads once only).
- Better secondary navigation (loads only as necessary)
- better load time and appearance
- scrollable scaled blog gallery (with scroll bar that matches my colors)
- anything else to make this cool.

Any and all help is appreciated! THANKS!

MKJ · 26-09-2006, 21:55

Hi

Using frames is frowned upon a bit nowadays as website crawlers are not keen (or unable) to follow the contents of frames but if most of your site is static and you use iframes to load various pages that only have minimal content it seems ok. By this I mean if you construct a site with an iframe as the image loading part of your site - like a gallery in effect - people searching for something are hardly likely to target your iframe content. As for your site design at the moment it looks ok for sure but navigation works off full page loading. Not really a bad thing as most sites do this. But as yours is so image intensive you can experiment with making a site that loads content into an iframe (you can also do this with divs but it is a little more complicated so learning this way is a good starting point). Use the middle part as a gallery in effect. Not hard to achieve at all. You just make your urls target the iframes. I have set a display up for you to look at. You can even swap menus by loading the lower left links which will load a new menu above. The new menu will then target the iframe as well. Might give you some ideas

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Iframe demo.

26-09-2006, 00:53	#1 (permalink)
ron3d Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 231	Frames and Navigation Hello, I am more of an cg artist than a web designer, so I came up with the basic way I wanted my site to look. However, navigation and loading aren't quite up to par with other sites. What I want is ...resizeable frames and easy navigation. Please look at www.ron3d.com. Right now, all I have are sliced .jpgs making up every page. I want to keep the appearance as close the design I have as possible, but have 1 frame for navigation, one for secondary navigation, and the other as my gallery/blog area. But the frames I see split the entire webspace area, and won't conveniently fit into a custom size table cell. In a nutshell, this is my wish list: - Better main navigation (loads once only). - Better secondary navigation (loads only as necessary) - better load time and appearance - scrollable scaled blog gallery (with scroll bar that matches my colors) - anything else to make this cool. Any and all help is appreciated! THANKS!

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26-09-2006, 21:55	#2 (permalink)
MKJ Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 31	Hi Using frames is frowned upon a bit nowadays as website crawlers are not keen (or unable) to follow the contents of frames but if most of your site is static and you use iframes to load various pages that only have minimal content it seems ok. By this I mean if you construct a site with an iframe as the image loading part of your site - like a gallery in effect - people searching for something are hardly likely to target your iframe content. As for your site design at the moment it looks ok for sure but navigation works off full page loading. Not really a bad thing as most sites do this. But as yours is so image intensive you can experiment with making a site that loads content into an iframe (you can also do this with divs but it is a little more complicated so learning this way is a good starting point). Use the middle part as a gallery in effect. Not hard to achieve at all. You just make your urls target the iframes. I have set a display up for you to look at. You can even swap menus by loading the lower left links which will load a new menu above. The new menu will then target the iframe as well. Might give you some ideas . Iframe demo.

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