Help me get rid of frames

Hi everyone,

My site currently uses frames and I wish to get rid of these. Even sites with zero traffic are higher placed in google ( I suspect due to the frameset I have)

Currently there is a main HTML page, and a side navigation, the side navigation is also common to the forum ( VBulletin)

Here is my website www.mlptp.net

Click on any of that side navigation and youll be taken directly to forum.

I want to keep the side navigation, so it is fixed on all pages and that only the forum scrolls, not the whole page scrolling.

What is the best way to do this?.....

I read this thread on here about php includes

http://www.webforumz.com/css-forum/62185-framesets.htm

would that work?


I am looking for something that will mimic the frameset ( be that CSS and something else) but whatever it is, I would like it to be SEO friendly.

I am stuck with how to go about this, my members all use the side navigation on the forums and would be lost without it....

how can I fix this?

Many thanks

SS

PHP includes will supply the "reuse your code" aspect of frames.

To make the sidebar fixed, you need the CSS { position: fixed }. This is not supported by IE6, however; and although you can hack around it, all of the hacks are nasty.

Thankyou Mike , the includes I shall look into.

Is there any other way around that, so it will work in IE6?

What I am trying to do is mimic the exact setup I have at the moment, without having to use frames...

do those hacks for IE do the trick, or anything else you may know of?

Thanks again

There are several hacks for fixed positioning. You basically have four options:

1. Don't use fixed positioning.
2. Use it, but accept that IE6 will just use normal positioning.
3. A smooth hack, with no scripting. Downside: it means absolute positioning won't work on your page.
4. Use a horrible javascript hack that causes jerky page rendering.

That's my order of preference, with (1) being the best solution and (4) the worst. I've tried all four solutions, and I now use (1).

Thankyou Mike,

Im a little lost with how to recode things.....

Currently the index page of my site is coded like this:

Code: Select all

</HEAD>
<script>
<!--
if (window!= top)
top.location.href=location.href
// -->
</script> 
<frameset cols=140,* border=0 frameborder="0">
<frame SRC="http://www.mlptp.net/1.html" frameborder="0" border=0 NORESIZE>
<frame SRC="http://www.mlptp.net/splash.html" scrolling="yes" frameborder="0" border=0 NAME="large" NORESIZE>
</frameset>
</HTML>

its coded for those frames,

Can you show me how I can recode that for the php includes?

Many thanks for your help