Frames

[johnJohn]

Hi all,

I have a website with left, top and main frames. Obviously only the "main" frame changes. The left frame is navigation buttons and the top frame just an image. When a button is clicked on the left frame, the new page is loaded in the main frame.

Now, I want to send a link to a specific page to a friend via email. The page name (for arguments sake) is "ourphotos.html". The website name is www.myalbum.com. Now if I send the link as
www.myalbum.com/ourphotos.html he wont see the left and top frames - only the page called ourphotos.html.

How do I specify the link (or change the code within my pages) so that I can point to a specific page, but all frames will also still be loaded.

Thx,
JJ

[Doe maar]

You can use an ASP page.
e.g. http://localhost/myframe.asp?link2=h...ourphotos.html

<%@ Language=VBScript%>
<%option explicit
 
dim strContentLink
if Request.QueryString("Link2")="" then
    strContentLink = "default.asp"
else
    strContentLink = Request.QueryString("Link2")
end if
 
%>
<frameset cols="10,10,80" scrolling="no">
    <frame name="menu2" src="menu2.asp">
    <frame name="menu1" src="menu1.htm">
    <frame name="main" src="<%=strContentLink%>">
</FRAMESET>

[johnJohn]

Hi Doemaar,

Thanks for your reply. I however do not want to use vbscript or asp. Is there not another way of doing this??

Otherwise it seems like I will have to get rid of my frames!!?? The actual reason why I need to be able to "specify" the page,is for use in search engines. I dont always want the person finding us on the search engine to go to the homepage - depending on which keywords he/she uses, I want to direct them to the specific page.

Any suggestions? Surely there must be another way - without vbs or asp

Thanks,
JJ