Results: Need a nav column that stays in middle-left of window

frames: Yes, I'm looking for JavaScript (or something additional?) that
produces the same functionality as frames. That is recreating the
wheel, I know, but I do not want to use frames.

A question about frames and search engines? There is no question. Some
search engines do not support frames. Specifically, those engines will
not open up the pages that are the sources for your individual frames.
Inktomi is one example. You can copy your content into a noframes tag,
but I have no faith in my own or my successor's ability to update both
the source page AND the noframes tag every time.

scripts:  A couple people gave us some links to very good script sites,
which I've bookmarked: http://www.javascript-page.com/watermark.html
and http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/staticmenu3.htm.
Unfortunately, each of these scripts has a problem with Macintosh IE
4.5 and possibly IE 5. Sorta surprising, but true. They can probably be
fixed, so keep your eye on them if you're interested in the same thing.
Otherwise, the watermark or static menu 3 were just what I was looking
for.

Netscape 6: It may be dead on arrival, but it's still out there and I
_know_ I'm going to get a call from a customer... It doesn't work! The
unfortunate (?) nature of small businesses, particularly small
businesses with inherently geeky customers. Besides which, I want to
write or use scripts that adhere to standards when possible...

Relevance of search engines: I, too, have low opinions of search
engines, and even lower opinions of paid-position search engines.
However, search engines are still relevant, because people (customers!)
still use them. Customers do find us with search engines, even though
we aren't always (and can't always be) at the top of every list. My job
is to make certain we don't disappear entirely, and that we appear as
highly in the list as reasonably possible. If we used frames, we'd
disappear from some widely used indexes like Inktomi's, which just
isn't acceptable. Also, I feel I'd lose some of Temer's respect.

Geeky customers: Yeah, I said it. It's true!

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Michael Greisman
Webmaster
Scanalytics, Inc.

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