Getting away from Frames and into CSS

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Rich

This is a newbie question: My current site is modeled in
straight html with frames and I'm changing to CSS. Right
now the navigation frame is on the left and content frame
on the right. If I want to add a new page of content, I
simply add 1 link on the navigation page, target it to
the right panel, and add that page.

Now as I redo the site with CSS, I understand that I can
change the formatting of all the pages just by changing
the external style sheet. Nice. But what if I want to
add an extra navigation link? Won't I need to get and
add that link to every previous page since the left side
navigation bar is part of every page instead of in a
separate frame?

The static site is http://www.hpws.com
My new experiemental site with the CSS and no frames is
http://www.carwashcatalog.com/rewrittenindex.htm

Thanks
 
Hi Rich,
You'd normally stick a navigation menu into an include page (either ASP or
FP depending on your needs) this way you only need to edit 1 file to
add/edit/remove links.

It's certainly a good idea to go the CSS route on your site but CSS isn't
related to editing your menu. Did you write the CSS/script on your page
yourself or get it from somewhere else - it's quite "interesting" :-)
 
CSS only control the appear of the text/elements on the page, not the actual
content. Consider using the FP Include Page component.

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The CSS scripting in the page is total plagarism I copied
from another site. Not sure what half of it means, but
as I start deleting things and stuff quits working/looks
wrong, I know to hit the undo button.
Thanks for the help!
 
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