David Watkinson
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Mike, I’m definately getting the message that I shouldn’t use frames and I do want to move toward HTML5, but I don’t want to use something that is too new for some browsers to understand. Should I use Dreamweaver HTML5 pages and user Dreamweaver’s check command to tell me if I have a browser compatibilty problem?
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Fernando, thank you very much for providing the missing piece of information — when people have been telling me to use CSS instead of frames it was in the context of reloading entire pages! So to update a menu bar that is on every page, you use a style that can be universally updated, right? But couldn’t you just as easily have the menu bar in a separate frame and reload a new frameset each time? The site I’m developing right now isn’t online, but the it would need the same kind of simple functionality that my personal site has: davidwatkinson@mac.com
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Mike, thanks for your reply. My main concern is the functionality of frames, not the look of the design of my site. Everyone tells me to use CSS instead of frames but I have yet to see an example of how I would use CSS to do what frames allow me to do – swap content in and out of an area controlled by a menu. Can you point me to an explanation of how I would do that? Or am I missing something? Thanks for your time.
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Also, following the links I was given about using CSS templates, I see that they are recommending “ajax-based sites, commonly known as Spry… and Spry widgets.” Is that a good way to go? I’m using Dreamweaver.