Best way to load external content

[skyscaoe]

Hi all,

I'm in a bit of a pickle. I'm primarily a flash designer, html is far from my forte - but I do know my way around dreamweaver well enough to design a basic website. The small business I work for has landed a job revamping a real estate website. It'll be a flash/html hybrid which is all well and good, but the thing is - I'll need to hook it up to their database, and I'm wondering what the best way to do this is.

I have very limited access to the database, just a bunch of links really, I can't touch how the information is presented, so I have to work around this. The only way that I can think of presenting the information in the database is to load it into a frame, or an i-frame (this way the menu can remain at the top).

Now, I know - frames are evil, they cause all sorts of problems etc etc. I've heard it a million times before - but how else can I go about it? I've just got a bunch of urls to work with, I know nothing about server side scripting etc, and I've got a deadline of about two weeks...

In this case, would frames be the way to go? (Are frames ever the way to go?)

I've been experimenting with frames and I-frames, but have found all sorts of problems with alignment (the site is aligned to the center) - is there any way to get perfect central alignment across IE, Firefox and Safari in a top/bottom frameset or i-frame? It seems rather impossible.

If anyone has any good advice they could offer me I would really appreciate it.

[ryanbutler]

That's an odd predicament...but in any case, I don't see why you can't present the information from the database in any html, php, asp you want. The database doesn't care how you extract and use the information, it cares how you store the information.

Hope it helps.