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CSS abilities instead of frames???

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by chandler

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Can I use CSS instead of frames to create a table on the left side of my pages and have navigation buttons and text inside? My goal is to be able to make one edit to text or a link in that table and have the change be site wide. It's almost like using frames but it would be in the middle of the page.

Any help is appreciated.

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by jaqui

or use xml/xhtml and css combined where the navigation menu data is in a plain text file
diplayed by the xhtml, and the css does the formatting like it should.

adding:

you can just edit the css to layout the navigation including the actual links.

by chandler

Do you know anywhere that gives a tutorial on how to combine the xml and css to do that? Where can I see some code where I could learn that?

Thanks,
Chanlder

by oz_media

I use Macromedia Dreamweaver and they have a template called the Halo template, which is just phenominal code and has WAY more than you need so you just remove whats not needed on a page, then edit the rest.

But you should try free code sites,
These guys have both two and three column templates:
http://www.ssi-developer.net/main/templates/3col.shtml

Here's some great layout examples and walkthroughs:
http://webdesign.about.com/cs/webdesignlayout/a/bl_layouts.htm

NOTE: the first one says it is not good ot break out of frames, but no matter WHAT the cost in code, Frames are the worst layout for company sites. MOST search engine spiders will not read content in frames, thus costing you MANY hits and visitors as you will not get ranked properly based on your content and body copy.

by jaqui

http://w3c.org

they have links to tutorials for all internet specs, even if they don't have one themselve.

since they are the group setting internet standards. they do have tutorials for every standard. how to use it, and how it blends with other standards.

by tjayweaver

use a template with frames or css, doesnt matter, however, frames are deprecated in favor of css.

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