Re: PCS Frames

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 10631
interpreted = N
texte = At 10:18 PM 4/8/97, Robert Minor wrote: >Who else is dealing with PCS on a frame based site? >I am. Let me tell you what I'm doing and what I've come up with as it may be of some help or may spark some ideas.The basic layout of the site is two frames: the left frame is narrow with navigation buttons, and the right frame changes with search, browse, detail, shopping cart, etc., as well as some non PCS pages.The main problem is getting the carts to be in sync.Here's what I did (BTW, the site I'm writing about is under development and therefore not finished or released.):The default page is a two frame page as I described above. However, the left frame offers two navigation buttons (as well as text-based links) that allow you to enter the site. One of the selections is a text only site, with which I am going to use a variable so that the pages can have a [HIDE IF [variable]=T] or something like that to hide graphics. (I haven't gotten very far on that...once I get everything cranking with a Netscape 3.0 compliant set up I'll backtrack.)The other selection takes you into the catalog. I've coded things like this...The button to get into the site is...The page index.tmpl contains: This way, right from the start, I have synchronized the cart throughout all of the frames. And as long as I pass cart=[cart] in all of my links, I'm ok.One other thing that has helped me in this is to display the [cart] in all of the pages, and even in the title of the frameset containing page to let me see I'm in sync.I'm sure things get more complex if you have more frames, but if you create a cart in loading your frameset page, and link to all of your frames with the ?cart=[cart] argument, and always pass that argument, you should be ok.Ed Trefzger Vice President and Webmaster Yellow Dog Communications, Inc. http://www.yellowdog.com/ phone 716.235.4685 fax 716.235.0509 ------------------------------------ To leave this talk list send an email to macjordomo@smithmicro.com with BODY unsubscribe WebDNA-Talk ------------------------------------ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: PCS Frames (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
  2. Re: PCS Frames-Default page is solution! (Robert Minor 1997)
  3. Re: PCS Frames-Default page is solution! (Ed Trefzger 1997)
  4. Re: PCS Frames (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  5. Re: PCS Frames (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  6. Re: PCS Frames (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  7. Re: PCS Frames (Ed Trefzger 1997)
  8. Re: PCS Frames (Robert Minor 1997)
  9. Re: PCS Frames (Robert Minor 1997)
  10. Re: PCS Frames (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  11. Re: PCS Frames (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  12. Re: PCS Frames (Ed Trefzger 1997)
  13. Re: PCS Frames (Robert Minor 1997)
  14. Re: PCS Frames (Jacques VERNAY 1997)
  15. Re: PCS Frames (Ed Trefzger 1997)
  16. PCS Frames (Robert Minor 1997)
At 10:18 PM 4/8/97, Robert Minor wrote: >Who else is dealing with PCS on a frame based site? >I am. Let me tell you what I'm doing and what I've come up with as it may be of some help or may spark some ideas.The basic layout of the site is two frames: the left frame is narrow with navigation buttons, and the right frame changes with search, browse, detail, shopping cart, etc., as well as some non PCS pages.The main problem is getting the carts to be in sync.Here's what I did (BTW, the site I'm writing about is under development and therefore not finished or released.):The default page is a two frame page as I described above. However, the left frame offers two navigation buttons (as well as text-based links) that allow you to enter the site. One of the selections is a text only site, with which I am going to use a variable so that the pages can have a [HIDE IF [variable]=T] or something like that to hide graphics. (I haven't gotten very far on that...once I get everything cranking with a Netscape 3.0 compliant set up I'll backtrack.)The other selection takes you into the catalog. I've coded things like this...The button to get into the site is...The page index.tmpl contains: [cart] name=menu scrolling=no resize=no border=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 marginheight=0 spacing=0 FRAMEBORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0> [cart] name=main scrolling=auto resize=yes border=0 spacing=0MARGINWIDTH=0 marginheight=0 FRAMEBORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0>This way, right from the start, I have synchronized the cart throughout all of the frames. And as long as I pass cart=[cart] in all of my links, I'm ok.One other thing that has helped me in this is to display the [cart] in all of the pages, and even in the title of the frameset containing page to let me see I'm in sync.I'm sure things get more complex if you have more frames, but if you create a cart in loading your frameset page, and link to all of your frames with the ?cart=[cart] argument, and always pass that argument, you should be ok.Ed Trefzger Vice President and Webmaster Yellow Dog Communications, Inc. http://www.yellowdog.com/ phone 716.235.4685 fax 716.235.0509 ------------------------------------ To leave this Talk List send an email to macjordomo@smithmicro.com with BODY unsubscribe WebDNA-Talk ------------------------------------ Ed Trefzger

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