Re: What is wrong with this??

Thanks to everyone for their input! Thanks especially to Donna for giving
me the advice below. I'm not sure it did the trick, since everyone who
responded could see it fine, but it seems to make sense, so I did what she
suggested.
Thanks again for your help!
Pam


>Hi Pam
>
>In your second FRAMESET tag, where you define the three lower frames,
>you've got the following:
>
><FRAMESET COLS="135,394*,135" FRAMEBORDER="NO" FRAMESPACING="0" BORDER=0
>rows="*">
>
>1.  You should define EITHER cols or rows, not both, so I'd suggest
>removing ROWS="*".
>
>2.  I'm assuming you want to define the left and right frames as being 135
>pixels wide, with the middle frame taking up whatever space is left on the
>screen.  Not sure why you've got "394*" for that middle frame - I'd suggest
>changing it to just "*".  The "*" indicates proportional sizing, but using
>a number with it really only makes sense if you do that with more than one
>frame.  For example, if you had COLS="1*,3*,2*" that would indicate you
>want the middle frame to be 3 times as wide as the first frame, and the
>third frame to be twice as wide as the first frame (ie you're dividing the
>available space into sixths, with the first frame occupying 1/6, the middle
>frame 3/6 or 1/2, and the third frame 2/6 or 1/3).  If you wanted to
>include a number with the asterisk, it would more properly be "1*", since
>you want that middle frame to take up ALL of the proportionally allocated
>screen space.  Easier just to use the asterisk on its own. :-)
>
>There's a good chance that if you make those two changes, the frames will
>work properly in all frame enabled browsers.
>
>You might then want to consider what provision to make for those who, for
>various reasons, might be using browsers that aren't frame enabled (eg
>adding a TITLE to each FRAME tag to indicate what can be found in that
>frame, and/or adding NOFRAMES content).
>
>Regards,
>Donna
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Pam Mather <pammather(at)earthlink.net>
>
>> Apparently, there are problems with the frames in my site on certain
>> browsers. (AOL was named as one) Can anyone tell me what I am doing
>wrong?
>> I don't have AOL so I'm not sure how to check it, and even if I could, I
>> doubt I'd know what I was doing wrong.
>>
>> The address for the main framed pages is: (BTW, it's a commercial site)
>>
>> http://www.mardigrasstore.com/catalog/frames/home.html
>>
>> there should be three vertical frames underneath one narrow horizontal
>one
>> at the top.  The problem with AOL users is that the middle frame (which
>is
>> the target for all links from the right frame) is not there!
>

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