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

I personally think that sites that are mucked up with a lot of banners are a pain in the arse when waiting for them to load...and I dunno...Too many of them is just tacky. Sure, sure, you know how to do graphics and are very proud of this. Why not offer to do some for others? I put a *few* banners on the link ssection of my site, but that is only because the people that I was linking to asked for me to do this. One of them even refuses to show up now thanks to Angelfire (which was that person's server of choice..not mine) >_< I went for frames *gasp* I know that not all browsers support them, but to me it was the easy way out of having to put a menu on every single page. I'll most likely make a non-frames site as well if people complain enough, but they haven't so far. I also went with one color for the background on all of the site. I utilize a table for the news on the front page and also in the section on The Letter People to make things a bit easier on the eyes. Wow..I sure did ramble a bunch..But to cut things short: I hate clutter

I totally agree with ya on that one. If you HAVE to have clutter, then have them in different sizes.. trust me.

:D Yeah, different sizes would help a bit...That and placing the danged banners in an aesthetically pleasing manner ^_^ Hmm..and smaller file sizes helps as well. I've been to some pages that take longer to load than a Flash page. Well..anyways off to school and work I go!

To get round using frames and to still have an easily updatable menu on every page use vitual includes, they work brilliantly! Just put them in a table which is the same on every page eg:

¦---------------------------------------------¦
¦include virtual="header.htm" ¦
¦ ¦
¦---------¦-----------------------------------¦
¦ ¦ ¦
¦ ¦ Body which changes on each page ¦
¦menu.htm ¦ ¦
¦ ¦ ¦
¦ ¦ ¦
¦ ¦ ¦

If you save an empty version every time you want a new page you just fill it in and save it as a different filename. If you need to edit the menu/header you can do so in the include files.... easy!

If you're feeling really swish and are using something like dreamweaver you can even make it a template so if you change the table size it updates all your pages too!

Mel

Doh, ASCII art didn't want to work, hope you get the idea though!

Mel