Website design help...

Originally Posted by Ping

Which is exactly my point. The extensions (link and filename) have to match or it won't work.

I'm pretty positive he said the same thing as you.

Originally Posted by timwilky

Not wishing to teach my granny to suck eggs, I know you were trying to keep thinks simple but.

Errrr. Not quite, the extension tells the web server what to do with the file. You don't write the mime encoding stuff into a HTML file but when the web server presents it ,there are encoding headers dictated by the file type. Similarly a file does not need to be html content, it could be php, perl or an application. The server must know what to do with it and this is dictated either by the file extension, presence in a cgi directory etc.

Dude, I was leaving MIME types out of it deliberately because for the purposes of this discussion, they are irrelevent.
Not a bad description of what they are, though.

Argh!

We're only dealing with flat html files here guys...

Originally Posted by Ping

Argh!

We're only dealing with flat html files here guys...

That's why I left the other stuff out.

Well, I see you both have things totally under control so I'll leave Skip in your more than capable hands. :P

[Skip]

Originally Posted by Ping

Well, I see you both have things totally under control so I'll leave Skip in your more than capable hands. :P

No dont leave me here alone Ping!

I just tested it with your code and created the other files. With the slashes it didn't work (inevitably, since the files were all in the same directory which was not the root) without the slashes all worked as expected.

[timwilky]

OK, couple of things, what is your web server and how are you copying the files to it.

What does your log files say etc (look in both the access and error logs).

can you access the individual frame components ie, http://sitename/banner.html etc.

when you request the frame page, do you get that page delivered, (simply view source to confirm content).

One thing that can bugger up many peoples early publishing is file protection of the web server, who owns the files, what is there protection etc. You may end up having to explicitly set them as public readable to permit the web server process to read them etc.

oh and last thing, if you are using a *nix webserver, be careful about the case of the filenames

[Richie]

I like riding my motorbike i do....




this is all over my head so I'll shut up and continue to ride my motorbike...








































coat and taxi awaiting @ the exe.prompt

[Skip]

Right I am back home now - turns out that the Dreamweaver software is insisting on the leading slashes for the linked pages - if I remove them they stay away until I save the frameset, when it puts them back in! Cheers! So now I am having to do all the work on the site, save it all and then manually edit the HTML to remove the slashes and voila it works perfectly!

I am wondering why its insisting on them now as I pulled up a test site I did a while ago and it has them missing?! Even wierder!

Anyway, main thing is I have got to the bottom of it so I can carry on - thanks to everyone for your kind help - especially Queen Ping