h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have used Frontpage to put a crappy site together for myself here: http://www.liam-graves.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

I have two problems.

1) The MMM forum is done in frames - I need some sort of navigation bar so that I can go back to the index. How do I setup the links in the top right hand corner so it opens in the whole page, not just that frame.

2) That you will have noticed if you investigated 1) - the navigation links in the top right hand corner of the MMM forum are off the screen - how do I set that cell up so that it fits whatever size the screen is?



Liam.

1) eh?

do you mean that you'd like the start a new forum and post to a forum to break out of it's frame and use the whole window?

2) huh?

I didn't see any link off to the right hand side

Ah - you've experienced the problem. Your screen is not as wide as the frame and I haven't allowed scrolling.

The problem I'm having is that the link back to the index page takes that frame to the index page - not the entire page. That is, the index page is then displayed in the top frame - but you can't scroll because clever boy here has turned it off.

Liam.

make use of the TARGET element in your links. target="new" will put it into a new window, and I think target="parent" will put it into the main window. Not sure off the top of my head there though.

As for the menu in the top, try using this and playing around with the pixel settings. This will put the image and the spans in a fixed position...


THIS IS CODE, IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO DO ANYTHING






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I'll give it a go tonight.

Thanks for your help.

Liam.

You're welcome

I thought the target in the anchor tag was '_top' for top most frame and '_new' for a new window, because if you just try and put top or new it will look for frames and child windows called top and new.

just a thought.

-- DoctorMO --

It has been a while since I used frames...

DoctorMo has it right. You have to use "_top" for a link to open in the current window.

Generally the browser will create a new window with the name you supplied in target="" if it doesn't find the window/frame you specify.

Can all you scarily clever people help me, please please please.

I just would really really like, one flower scrolling prettily across the screen under my picture.

I have tried, honestly I have. For two days. I worked out how to look at someone else's, I looked at Hati and Englander's butterflies, but 2 flowers flitting about looked very very silly.

I have looked everywhere for codes for "move across screen"

Thank you, humbly, for your help!

This here makes a rose go back and forth across the screen...






<SMILEY TYPE="rose" />

Note that (as far as I'm aware) this only works in Internet Explorer.

Indeed it does as it is not approved HTML and is an internet explorer gimmick


More info here: A789942

CK

julyflower: all the info you need is at A789942


CK

Yay and just to prove it, I'm in mozzila and It dosn't move at all.

you got to involve yourself in JavaScript if you want it to work multi browser (although I don't like the effect anyway so I'll shut up )

isn't there aq way to open windows with JavaScipt? and I didn't know it would open a browser window if you fed it a wrong name, it normaly just complains to me. Oh well.

-- DoctorMO --

Thank you so much Pastey and CK and the link to the site was really helpful, if only I had known it was called a "MARQUE"
I'll go and play around with my space now !

No worries, just shout if you need anything else

It works, I'm going to keep experimenting though

atualy, I've never tried to use JS in H2G2's GuideML.

-- DoctorMO --