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| Now you must name your frames. Ours will be called left and right. Select the left hand frame and check the inspector.
Here the frame has been given a name - left. You can set the width of the frame, either in pixels or percentage. You can choose whether to enable scrolling - Auto means scroll bars on that frame will appear if they are needed, for instance if the browser window is resized so small that not all of the page in the frame can be seen. You can also choose whether to allow the viewer to resize the frame - I haven't checked that, it's up to you. Don't worry about the empty reference, that's because we haven't installed a page in the frame yet. |
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Now select the right hand frame and look at the inspector again. Name the frame. You can see the names peeping out from behind the inspector.
This is very important. You absolutely must leave at least one frame (in each direction if it's a complicated arrangement) - set to 'Scale'. People can and will resize their browser window so one frame must be able to adjust to that. |
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So we have an empty frameset, correctly set up. Close it. |
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| Now make three more pages. Mine are called visit.html (can't quite remember why!) - - this will go in the left hand frame. Then I have page1.html and page2.html - these will alternate in the right hand frame, called by the links in the visit (or navigations) page.
Important - on the navigation page you set up the links, but don't create the links yet. By that I mean, type 'page 1, page 2' but don't make the links. Save the three pages in your website folder. You can put all the content on them at this stage if you like or leave that for now - you just need enough so you can check the correct page is being called. |
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| Now reopen your frameset page. You need to install visit.html in the left hand frame. Select the left hand page icon, with the question mark, and from the inspector point and shoot to visit.html.
You need a page in the right hand frame to start off with, so select that icon and point and shoot to page1.html. Here you can see I've linked to visit.html in the left hand frame. |
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| Important - we made our frameset, closed it, made the pages, reopened the frameset. So we know the frameset is saved. You might not do it exactly this way but you MUST save your frameset before making these links. Otherwise you'll get an absolute link to a file on your computer, and it won't work when it's uploaded. | |
| Now to make those navigation links work. On to page 4 | |
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