I can see what the tech is saying the frames sometimes get linked from search engines and the frame is displayed leaving the user unable to navigate. I had minimised this risk by having little or no content in the frames and no title.
I could write CSS which is Cascading Style Sheets and is only html it's no big deal. I don't really think I can let my work become an addendum to his instead of a forum project participated in by forum members. It sort of has become a commercial project with all the ego that goes with it.
I'm sure that your tech guy/admin will write the site for you if none of the members will do it. I had a lot of fun writing it. It's been a while since I wrote a site.
munki-boy wrote:Hi Oddley,
I am Andy, designer and administrator of the sausagemaking.org site. Franco
has asked me to advise you, regarding the proposed recipe database project
that he is undertaking with you.
Having looked briefly at the posts on the forum with Franco today, I have
noticed some points that would be undesirable. I hope to save you time and
energy and also to maximise future compatibility with the site.
Firstly, I would ask that you do not use frames, the site at present uses no
frames. Also, Franco and I would prefer to not use the proposed Javascript
cascading menu. Please take no offence at my comments as I am looking at
this entirely objectively.
The site uses cgi for the shopping cart, which to a great extent currently
hinders my current design ethic, which is to strive for pure XHTML and CSS.
I keep to the rules wherever reasonably possible. With this in mind I am
hoping you will agree to change your plans somewhat.
The area that is a vertical white rectangle that forms the centre area of
the pages on the sausage site, would be where the recipe links would be
displayed. If you could design fairly simple content to go there it would
be great. The PDF files can then open in their own window. If you aren't
used to working with CSS you can send me an image of you're design and I
will build the necessary layout, which you could then insert your code into.
We intend to re-design the site many times to keep it fresh, we are in fact
planning to re-design early 2005. With CSS, we can easily port the new
colour scheme to your database area.