Webpage Designs

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by Millay

i agree in some circumstances frames are a must, and can be the only real way to get the site design to work, although I have not used them for a few years.

As for content from other sties/providers, I worry about directly linking to content for reasons of reliability , I prefer fetching the content and storing it locally... but each to his own

You see, I could do that but it'd add so much development time to a customers site that it wouldn't be financially viable for them especially as especially as they all seem to use different remote feeds each with databases having completely different schema.

[Orior]

Thanks guys. I'm only doing a personal homepage (definitely no database catalogues nor eCommerce etc) so if I want frames I'll just go along to Specsavers. Boom boom!

[dilli-theclaw]

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[Richard M]

Originally Posted by Bifta

AbPerhaps you'd like to explain how to include content from a different domain not using frames, every single one of my customers uses a property feed from different providers which they're supplied just a URL (disregarding iframes as you cannot dynamically size them to the content cross domain), you normally find the people that bang on about frames being bad etc are those that end up designing the absolute ugliest sites.

I wouldn't know, I'm a developer not a designer - although I don't think nthellworld.co.uk looks too bad, especially in a browser like FF, Safari or Opera.
I think this would replace whichever content you're going on about though:

PHP Code:

<?php 
if ((!empty($_GET['site']) || (isset($_GET['site'])) {
$site = $_GET['site'];
echo "<div id=\"$sitename\">";
include_once("http://$site/content/syndication/whatever.asp?variable=value"); 
echo '</div>';
}
?>

(Where $site is something like "www.example.com" and $sitename is a site title which gives you the <div> ID such as "microsoft")
And then you'd use CSS to resize or style the content of that <div> which could be specific to each site.

I can honestly say I've not used frames since I was learning HTML all those years ago and I've never found a need for them - there's always a better way around it.