I think you are on the right track. Take a look at this web site for an example of what can be done without frames but still have a nice looking side menu on all pages. Tables, Tables, Tables.
http://www.counter-strike.net
PS: Ingore the content.
Alan
On 18 Apr 2000, at 10:55, George Woltman wrote:
Date sent: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:55:34 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: George Woltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mersenne: Facelift (round 2)
Hi again, Summarizing the feedback from the first round: 5 votes for liking the new look, 2 votes against. 2 votes for frames, 7 votes against. 4 votes for too slow. Here's what's new this round. 1) I dumped the mouse rollover and replaced the 44 different menu gifs with one navbar gif. This should help our European friends suffering from slow load times due to downloading separate gif files. 2) The text now wraps around the navbar. Some found the white space below the navbar ugly. I'm not convinced this is any better. 3) The status table should display OK in netscape. 4) The MSIE improperly terminated string bug is not fixed. I actually think its a bug in MSIE. 5) I added alt tags to all <IMG> entries. 6) The icons at the bottom of prime.htm are in a neat little row - thanks to someone that suggested putting them in a table. Here are the big open issues. I've not decided how to resolve them. 1) I really wanted the menu to stay fixed in a frame (I like being able to navigate anywhere in the site with one click and no scrolling), but sentiment against frames is quite strong. Also the current navbar doesn't fit in all screens (its 623 pixels high). I could offer a frames, non-frames, and text-only versions without too much trouble. 2) The status and benchmark pages - the most difficult to convert to the new style - now have trouble fitting in the browser window. I can try smaller fonts or add enough text above the tables so that they appear below the navbar. 3) A redesigned banner at the top of every page. Many others have remarked how they too are poor graphic artists! 4) And, of course, organizing the content! Along with displaying it in pleasing fonts and colors on a compatible background. The latest incarnations can be viewed at: ersenne.org/newhtml/prime.htm" eudora=ersenne.org/newhtml/prime.htm" eudora="autourl"htm
"A programmer is a person who turns coffee into software." Alan R. Vidmar Assistant Director of IT Office of Financial Aid University of Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED] (303)492-3598 *** This message printed with 100% recycled electrons *** _________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
