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Please help, Frames issue.

I’m praying that someone here can help me with this issue.

So I tried correcting the orphaned page issue on my frame based website with this html goodies code:

[url]http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/frames/print.php/3459761[/url]

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”javascript”>
if (self==parent)
{
document.write(‘<b>THIS IS A FRAME ELEMENT</B>’)
document.write(‘You will be transported to frames in a second’)
document.write(‘<META HTTP-EQUIV=”refresh” CONTENT=”1; URL=framepage.html”>’)
}
</SCRIPT>

It’s been really great, but the only problem I’ve been noticing is that people want to read the information on the orphaned page (in my case celebrity encounters) and then are suddenly transported to the main page of my website. From my statcounters and trackers I notice that many of my visitors get frustrated and leave because they can’t find a way to get to this orphaned page.

Is there a way to keep the orphaned page, but just load or add the left scrollbar/side column? This way they still keep the page they wanted to look at, but now get the scrollbar to visit the rest of my website.

I’ve looked all over the web for answers, but can’t find any. I’m still very much in the learning stages of creating a website and any help would really be appreciated.

Here is my website:
[url]http://home.att.net/~ned17/[/url]

Thank you!

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@tracknutAug 30.2007 — Seems like you could get rid of the frames completely, and use a scrolling div for the names along the left. Then the whole orpan thing goes away, doesn't it? (I'm not sure what an orphan is, but I'm assuming it's a ramification of using frames...)

Dave
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@sterlingandearlauthorAug 30.2007 — Thank you very much for your response.

From what I understand of using a scrolling div... if I used it for the names on my website (on the our stories section) and you clicked on one of the names it would take you to a completely different page or jump you somewhere else on a page, losing the sidebar.

For sake of ease of navigation, I wanted visitors to be able to click on a name and then see the story on the right side without losing their place on the list. That way they can go in and out of stories just by clicking on each name on the list.


Is there any other ideas out there that could solve my orphaned page dilemma? The html goodies code would've worked perfectly if I could just reload the orphaned page with the left column and not to the home page of my website.
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@tracknutAug 30.2007 — Well I would put the scrolling div on all of the story pages (with an include), so there wouldn't actually be a page that didn't have a list of names on the left. It would take editing all the pages to do this, but it sounds like that's what you're doing anyway.

Dave
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