Display content without frames

I have a lot of pages that I want to display with the same header and navigation, Is there a way to display the content dynamically in the centre of a page using the same header and navigation without using frames.

I found one tutorial on the net but the guy ended up with twice as many pages, he had a page with three includes header, nav and page 1, which then called those three pages and the same for page two, header, nav and page two includes, etc.

I would be better off the use static pages then at least I wouldn't have as many pages.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks, Mike.

Comments

The guy was right :)

January 30, 2004 by Kutt Niinepuu

Hi there! Actually, the guy was right in that he used templates for separate parts of the page. It is being widely used with rich dynamic solutions like forums and bulletinboards. It may seem confusing at first, but surely your site contains more than just one page... So once you create separate header (it may have the navigation in it) and footer templates and include them in your page - you have an easy time afterwards when it comes to updates or structure changes (in your example, "page two" uses the same header and nav "pages" as "page 1" - so you see). Wheter or not to use a separate template for the content instead of simply calling header and footer templates to the main page WITH the content, remains to be decided upon for the webmaster. It's all about efficiency and not only client side. Other than that - make use of DreamWeavers Library function and make it all one page.

RE: The guy was right :)

January 30, 2004 by Michael Holohan

OK, thanks for the help, Mike.

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