Is it Possible...

[Stringer]

Basically my problem is.....

I do alot of photography in my spare time and am looking to take it further and all the photos i take get uploaded to my site for all to see etc, i occasionally have to add new options to the menu on the side of the website and at the moment this means going into every page and adding the option/hyperlink to each page

What im wanting to know is, is it possible to have 3 individual pages put together into one page

I used to use frames on Frontpage alot but the problem with that is that your left with minimal space to put for pictures etc as you can only scroll on the individual frames and it made the whole website look alot smaller than it actually is


This is the site as it looks at the moment, i've just screendumped a random page



What im wanting to do is have 3 sections

Header
Menu
Main

Like so:::




The header will obviously house the header picture and then the Menu will be on the left (but the same linked page for all pages, so I only have to edit the one thing for all pages to take advantage of the amndment) with the main section on the right which will house the information

If possible i'd like the site to function as it currently does whereby when you scroll down the header goes out of view etc and not how a fame would react and only scroll through that one part

(now as teh menu section eliminates the whole left hand side of the page and this becomes unused I could always go back to using frames and have a frame setup like below:::



but i'd much rather have it as it currently looks!!

Hope that all makes sense and that i've not gone on and on too much

Any help would be much appreciated

Regards
Paul

[shalom_m]

Yes it is, and you can do it without frames.
Frames is 1990's technology.

CSS will solve the problem of the scrolling content. See 1 , 2 and 3
SSI can solve the Header and Menu repeats.

[Emzi]

You could also use PHP includes to put together the site.

[welshstew]

the suggesstions above should help you, I just wanted to post to say that, based on the photos in your screen grab........


......I want your job.

[shalom_m]

welshstew, stand in line with all the others!

[mreine]

Look in to PHP for sure.

I like to have physical pages for my stuff. Dynamic doesn't do well for SEO so here is what I do...

Create a subdirectory called "portfolio". Under that you create pages that are named for the pages they represent. IE.. "modified-nationals-2007-the-girls.php" and then create a same name directory "modified-nationals-2007-the-girls" with a thumbs folder under that "modified-nationals-2007-the-girls\thumbs"

Place a portfolio.php file in the root web folder. This PHP file should read all PHP files in the portfolio folder and put them in a list. You can then manipulate the names for several purposes. Strip the extension ".php" and you have the appropriate subfolder name. Add "\thumbs" and you have the thumbs folder name.

First, you can create the menu. Strip the dashes, capitalize the text, place them within hyperlink code and place them in a list. Menu done.

Inside each portfolio page, the code will retrieve the filename and create the thumbs path, read the list of files within the appropriate thumbs folder and display the thumbs with links to the larger image. The page title and H1 text can be read from the filename also, strip the dashes and capitalize the text.

What you will be creating is a sem-automatic system. No matter what you do, the basics have to still be done, but the coding will be done for you.

The basics are... copy any portfolio page you want, rename it to the appropriate new name, create the same name subfolder and copy all the images, then create the thumbs subfolder and copy all the thumbs. Your done!

The portfolio page will automatically read the new portfolio page. The copied and renamed porfolio page will now automatically retrieve it's new name and appropriate thumbs and full images.

Sounds involved, but it's a great learning experience for basic PHP techniques.