I have dreamweaver mx 2004, which i got as a present.

i am trying to create a webpage with a floating frame in the middle. the other frames - top frame, left frame, bottom frame and right frame are going to have a white background with nothing in their.

However all my content is going to be displayed in the middle frame, hence the name floating frame.

Please can someone guide me on how to utilise this floating frame feature in dreamweaver mx 2004 as it is disabled.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Tony

What do you mean by floating fame?

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I used to use frames like that to keep my page centred horizontally and vertically... but if that's what you're after then might I suggest you consider using CSS to achieve the same effect?

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yeah, frames are a pain in the butt.

CSS is the way to go for this, and it makes keeping it centered really easy.

if you post up the kind of sizes your were loking to have your floating frame at, i'll post the css and tell you how it works.

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Thank you guys for taking the time to reply.

I want to create frames so that the middle frame (floating frame) will show all the content.

left, right, top and bottom frames will all have a white background and will merely hold together the middle frame. The middle frame will be dissected into 2 vertical parts. The smaller left vertical part will display the navigation menu whilst the larger right vertical part will show the content depending on which navigation bar is selected.

I would say i am fairly literate to web design and really do want to try this with Dreamweaver but i am kind of struggling to do this.

Would it be advisable to further add 2 frames in place of the 2 vertical parts so as to save myself from adding the IFRAME command into the middle frame?

Hope i have made sense???

Thanks again.

TM

Sorry, i forgot to post the html code. Here goes -

&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd"&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Index&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;

&lt;frameset rows="80,*,80" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0"&gt;
&lt;frame src="toppage.htm" name="topFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize &gt;
&lt;frameset rows="*" cols="126,*" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO" border="0"&gt;
&lt;frame src="leftpage.htm" name="leftFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize&gt;
&lt;frameset rows="*" cols="*,108" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO" border="0"&gt;
&lt;frame src="centre.htm" name="mainFrame" frameborder="no"&gt;
&lt;frame src="rightpage.htm" name="rightFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize&gt;
&lt;/frameset&gt;
&lt;/frameset&gt;
&lt;frame src="bottompage.htm" name="bottomFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize&gt;
&lt;/frameset&gt;
&lt;noframes&gt;&lt;body&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/noframes&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;

Really hope someone can help.

Thanks again.

TM