universal menu

[spiffyjeff]

Hi,
Until recently, I thought frames provided a great way to have 1 file for your main links to be changed. My site, for example is
http://jeffshippen.homelinux.com/rbv/

When you click on Venues or Artists, it takes you to a site properly, still showing the main links, but say you find my site google-ing for a venue, it will take you here: http://jeffshippen.homelinux.com/rbv/venues/index.html

From there, my site is not serving the purpose i had intended, and the user can not see the rest of my site without me posting a link to the home page.

Is HTML capable of serving my purpose, or is there another programming language i should look at in conjunction of html?

[ray326]

That's one of the reasons frames are discouraged. Your only recourse with your current design requires the viewer to have Javascript enabled but that won't get you to the right place, it will only let you throw them into your home frameset. A slightly better alternative would be to put the global menu into an iframe on every page.

[buntine]

Or, if possible, use SSI (Server-side Include) to dynamically include the file within each document.

[Stephen Philbin]

Aye. Only thing you could do really is use Javascript to rediract to the top frameset, but doing that will get you banned from google.

[ray326]

Or, if possible, use SSI (Server-side Include) to dynamically include the file within each document.True. Had I been a bit more awake I would've realized he's probably running on Apache.

[spiffyjeff]

True. Had I been a bit more awake I would've realized he's probably running on Apache.

Indeed, I am running apache. Right now, i am implementing the iframe solution, don't know anything about SSI, maybe i'll check into that.

Thanks for the help guys

[buntine]

True. Had I been a bit more awake I would've realized he's probably running on Apache.

Hey, it happens to the best of us. ;)