Linked site in a frame ?

[Frank71]

Hello,

did someone a hack, that shows the linked site in a new frameset instead of a direct link ?

Often I saw something like that on other sites and I like it, that my visitors are still on my site, when they visit a link.

The frameset shoul have a main frame with the linked site and a nav-frame with some information of your site, a search box and a form to vote or review the link you can see in the main-frame.

Some ideas how to do that ?

Greetings
Frank

[Veg]

Originally posted by Frank71
Hello,

did someone a hack, that shows the linked site in a new frameset instead of a direct link ?

Often I saw something like that on other sites and I like it, that my visitors are still on my site, when they visit a link.

The frameset shoul have a main frame with the linked site and a nav-frame with some information of your site, a search box and a form to vote or review the link you can see in the main-frame.

Some ideas how to do that ?
Greetings
Frank

Remember that a lot of people cannot stand frames due to the fact that if they are not designed properly one will have problems to print the actual page, problems when one leaves the site which has a frame and so on.

A lot of people still use old browsers which would find certain frame set-ups hard to handle.

What I am trying to say be very careful when you set this up so that you will not make your visitors 'upset'.

An upset visitor is not likely to return to your site.

Good luck anyway.

[tjoerg]

Frank,

piece of cake to open a new window in linkpage. Go to rows.html and set target from "_parent" to "_blank". That's it.

greets

Joerg

[Frank71]

ai,

yes, but I want a frameset with the new link in the main-frame.

The header should have some basic information, a vote and a bookmark-button.
Perhaps someone bookmark the site, he will bookmark my site !

Also it is very good for affiliate-programs with session tracking.
You can only get the money, if the visitor buy in this session, so you need a way to get him back to your site.

I think nearly all users use brwosers without frame problems and if some webmaster uses framebreaks for their sites it is not so important.
All other things shoud work fine and you find this technic often in the web.

Greetings
Frank

[Veg]

Originally posted by Frank71
ai,

All other things shoud work fine and you find this technic often in the web.

Greetings
Frank

I know that a lot of sites you frames and I have also seen a lot of chocking examples of sites with frames.

Rembember that some people do not have the latest browsers, consequently, they might have problems with your site if you use frames.

If you decide to use frames, then make sure that you provide the user with an 'break out of the frame' link.

Just my 2 cents worth

[Frank71]

hm, I think NS >= V3 and IE >= V4 supports frames - did you ever seen a visitor with an older browser ??

But a link "site" without frame in the header-frame should be no problem

Greetings
Frank

[Veg]

Originally posted by Frank71
hm, I think NS >= V3 and IE >= V4 supports frames - did you ever seen a visitor with an older browser ??
Greetings
Frank

I have seen many visitors using older browsers, especially some schools that cannot afford 'fancy' computers and are limited to older browser versions, due to speed and memory restrictions.

Good luck anyway.

[esm]

First of all, I hate using sites that use frames when the surfer click on a link . I just right click on the links now and select "Open in a new window."

I even put a javascript in my header to break out of frames.

However, somewhere on my computer I some code I was playing around with to do that. If I ever work on it and it works, I'll post it. but don't wait on me...

As for older browsers, I don't worry about them anymore. I "feel" for the folks who continue to use them. I'm sure they encounter problems whereever they go on the internet.

I do track browers from time to time. As I recall from a month or so ago, out of 52,000 visitors in an 82 day period, about 10-15 visitors used ie3, ns2, aol2, etc. and I want to say less that 100 used ns4/ie4. but I may need to edit this number when I get on my other computer ( it uses XP and XP won't "share" the my document folder over my home intranet ).

[Frank71]

ai,

no one can help with this small codefix ?
esm ?

Greetings
Frank

[Frank71]

Hello,
please help, no one has an idea how to do this in go.php ?

Greetings
Frank

[esm]

Originally posted by Frank71
ai,

no one can help with this small codefix ?
esm ?

Greetings
Frank

Small???? Maybe... Easy??? No! Because I have never used frames. Having said that, I have a hack for it. At least it seems to work!

you create the header file and put whatever you want in it. It is a fixed height but you can change that or make it variable if know frames. Also, it opens a new browser window for the frame and site.

I will sell it for USD $20 including any updates. $15, as is, you fix any problems. If you want to pruchase it, send me an email.

or it is available as free download if you join the http://www.indexuhelp.com site.

[Frank71]

ai,

ok, link.class I replaced:

< header("Location: $url");

with:

echo <<<HTML
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>$link_id</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET ROWS="60,*">
<FRAME SRC="themes/default/frame_link.php?link_id=$link_id" scrolling=NO>
<FRAME SRC="$url">
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
HTML;

But the only thing what happened is, that the new window opens a short time and directly closed by self - what is wrong ?

Frank