Re: I want to get away from frames

Thomas-

Not to be snide... but this have definitely been answered in the archives...

To answer the question though-

It basically comes down to site management tools in your development 
environment. If you don't want to use CGI, Perl, PHP, etc.. Look at:

1. the concept of Templates in Dreamweaver
2. the concept of Server Side Includes (SSI) in Apache (and other web servers?)
3. Frontpage has 'sidebars' and its own includes
4. I would imagine that any full featured (read more expensive than 
Notepad, or Notetab (the best text editor out there IMO ) development 
environment would be able to do something like the above.

For the non-programmer who wants to use Notepad, or a development tool that 
does not have site management tools to do includes, SSI is a good choice. 
Low on the programming needed and does the job. Plus if you use Dreamweaver 
it will allow you to view the page correctly AND use SSI.

Have Fun-
Stephen Johnston

At 03:14 PM 1/28/2001 , you wrote:
>I've seen this topic discussed here before, but never in the direction I
>wanted to go.  Can anyone suggest a way to set up a site that doesn't
>"require" frames to get somewhat the same effect?  My friend mentioned that
>there may be a cgi script that will allow this but I am nowhere near that
>level.
>I guess what I am saying is, is there a way to set up a page with a nav area
>on the side without having to code it onto every  page and thus having to
>edit each and every page when changing or editing a link?  Do I need to use
>CSS or is this something I would use XML for?  Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>
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