Video about working with frames in web development?

06 Feb 07 2:58 pm

Yeah, what Adrian said :cool:

if you "google" it you'll see why.

What are you using as your html editor, maybe that's what's slowing you down? I've been using XsitePro and now Dreamweaver 8 and haven't found a problem.

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06 Feb 07 8:23 pm

freekdl wrote:

adrian wrote:Never EVER use frames for a website you want to get ranked in the search engines.

Are you talking about the index page or all pages?
Doesn't link cloaker work that way, by loading the affiliate page in a full page frame? I 'm doing the same to hide my affiliate links, should I change this or not?

Thanks

I would have to see an example of it. What I mean is, the page that is framed will never rank well in the Search Engines. This is proven across the industry. For one single page to show an affiliate product I don't see it would do much harm..... if you HAVE to use a frame which I don't know why?? use an "I-Frame".

Adrian,

06 Feb 07 9:50 pm

MarkLing wrote:It sounds like you're primarily interested in frames so that you don't have to update your navigation on every single page, is that right?

Another thing you can do is create a PHP include for your navigation. Basically all you do is copy the HTML for your navigation into to new file (much like you would for a frame), and then you insert a tiny piece of PHP into your article pages where you want the navigation to appear. What it's saying is "insert the content of this other page HERE". Then you just save your article pages as .php files, and they work perfectly.

The stuff you write in your article pages (where you want the navigation to appear) should look something like this.



(The stuff inside the brackets will depend on where in your file structure you've put your navigation file.)

You don't need to do anything special with the navigation HTML.... just copy the section from your current pages, paste it into a new document and save it as navigation.html (or whatever).

Hope that helps.
Mark

You can also put just the code part for the navigation (without the body, html, head, and all those tags) into a blank file called.... file.inc

<?php include ("file.inc");?>


Adrian,

07 Feb 07 10:42 pm

moon6446 wrote:Ok thanks, I have something to work with again :lol:

And I see, you all are a lot smarter with dreamweaver then I am :wink: So I have another question,

How do I put a email form on my website using dreamweaver, looking something like this:

name
Email
Submit

Cheers Simone

To have people sign up to your newsletter list or just to contact you?

Adrian,

07 Feb 07 10:58 pm

moon6446 wrote:Hi Adrian,

Well I have no newsletter yet, but I have a free ebook and the newsletters will come soon.

So I want a form with which I can also built my email list.
I don't want to use aweber yet maybe later, so I want to know if it's possible with dreamweaver only.

Simone

No is it not.

That would be very time consuming and the code is pretty advanced... you would have to save each email on your own and add peoples names to your email address book - then manually unsubscribe them. Not the way to go.

When you are ready - use aweber :)

Adrian,

07 Feb 07 11:20 pm

moon6446 wrote:Hi adrian

And just a contact form, is that easier to make? :roll:

Simone

It is done in php code. If you want to dabble with it I can show you the code.

Adrian,

07 Feb 07 11:47 pm

Dabble simply means to play around with - fiddle with it.

The code consists of 3 parts..... the page where your form will be - the script to make that form work - and a thankyou page after the sign up.

Part 1 )

The HTML Table Form:

You will have 3 main pieces of code for this set up. It includes a name, email, and submit button. Each object is placed in between the two form tags you see below..... what this form is doing is telling it to call up "contact_us.php", which is where the php script is. I will touch on that in a minute. First we must create the form.


<form action="contact_us.php" method="post">

</form>


In between this code ^^^^^^^^^^ you are going to make the 3 parts of your form. They are...

<input type="text" name="name">

<input type="text" name="email">

<input type="submit" class="contactbutton" value="Send Form" />
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

That would create a name area, email area, and a submit button...

To simplify that, it would like this in it's simplest way on a page.

<form action="contact_us.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="name"><br />

<input type="text" name="email"><br />

<input type="submit" class="contactbutton" value="Send Form" />
</form>



You would place this code in a HTML page or whatever. Now create a new page called "contact_us.php" or whatever you want to call it, just make sure you change the name of it in the opening form tag above.

This is only code you need on this page....

<?php
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$option_string = "Name: $name, \nEmail: $email";
mail ("[email protected]", "Moons Contact Form", $option_string, "From: $name");
header ("Location:

http://www.thankyoupagegoeshere.com/thanks.html

");
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Contact Us Form</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>



That's it...


Adrian,

10 Feb 07 12:12 pm

I don't understand the rest of the code, but as for the thankyou page, he just means somewhere that you want the person to be redirected to after they sign up.

10 Feb 07 12:52 pm

Sorry Simone, I have no idea about that stuff. Adrian should be around soon enough though, so don't worry :)

10 Feb 07 5:45 pm

Hey Simone,

I was struggling with the same thing last month..
I've uploaded the forms I use to

(broken link removed)

All you have to do is enter YOUR email adress in process.php,
but I included a readme with the necessary information.

If you still have problems installing it, you can add me on messenger and I will guide you through in dutch :wink:

[email protected]

24 Feb 07 7:47 pm

moon6446 wrote:Hi,

thanks for all your replies, well it took me sometime but I have the form on my website :lol:
Within the hosting account of affilorama is also a form mail option included and that's working :D

Cheers Simone

Good stuff :D