Need help using templates in Dreamweaver MX and some other questions

[Zapages]

I making Prince of Persia Legacy. I would like to use templates so its easier update to menu on the sides of PoP Legacy. But I don't understand anything about them. Editable regions and how to apply them. I don't understand once a template is created. Use the template and use it as different file without the program to think its another template.

My other question is. Is there anyway to create layered frames. Something like on IGN -News-Game-Ent. options on the top of the page and something like on Gamespot with their Top 10 games -Available-Coming soon- and many other ways... I'd like to make something like that for the characters, without loading the whole page.

Any help will be dearly appreciated. Also I have attached a preview of PoP Legacy... Please post comments on the design and the layout...

Thank you
Zapages

Edit1:I need help. How do you create the navigation bar like on http://www.gundamw.net/ .

I really need your help... Please help me. I'll really appreciate any help...

Edit2:Here's single page preivew of my site on Homestead: http://poplegacy.homestead.com/files/News.htm.html

Edit3:Sorry... But how do I create something like with Javascript... I was using EZmenue before, but I don't think that has option to create something like that....

[Chrono Archangel]

Originally Posted by Zapages

I need help. How do you create the navigation bar like on http://www.gundamw.net/ .

I really need your help... Please help me. I'll really appreciate any help...

you should know that triple posting isnt good

the left menu is done with javascript.

[Chrono Archangel]

check www.hotscripts.com for javascript menus

[stAr-fire]

you should know that triple posting isnt good

use the edit post button... anyways
yah the menu on that site is done with javascript i would check out some of these sites
www.javascriptkit.com
www.hotscripts.com
www.dhtmlcentral.com
www.dynamicdrive.com

^those are some sites i use for help^

also on your little 'news' area i would change the link color ... try to learn style sheets it can make your site cooler if you arent using one

also i dont really know much about dreamweaver i know i have it :P but i dont use it ... try using html and if you want to instead of using the templates i would try using an 'iframe' what you do is make your little navigation.html or something like that and you make that the navigation page then you go to your home page and type

iframe src="navigation.html" name="navigation" width="your width" height="your height" border="0"

(also put <> tags around it before iframe and the ending one after border="0")

im pretty sure thats the code... anyways you put that in and it appears

ahhh i remember when i used homestead... DONT! lol what i would do is look on a few of the links i gave you and learn some html by yourself and instead of using dreamweaver or the stupid homestead page builder thing and make your pages in notepad... i used to use those dumb things too so dont worry :P i started doing html about hmmm 2-3 years ago and heres my site www.targannet.com if you wanna check it out ... something else you might wanna do is buy a domain or something or get your own hosting i am hosted by flare85 or maybe its shadowflare85 in these forums idk but hes cool and i get hosting for 4.95 a month and 9.95 a year for the .com address so it comes out to be about 70 bucks a year which is very very very cheep (5x12+10=70 ... right?) anyways its a very good investment because you get like asp php mysql and everything else support pretty much! and its like 200-300 megs i think i dont really remember what i have... which is much better than what the 3 megs that homestead give ya... anyways you should check it out!

[Zapages]

Originally Posted by TaRgAn|matt

use the edit post button... anyways
yah the menu on that site is done with javascript i would check out some of these sites
www.javascriptkit.com
www.hotscripts.com
www.dhtmlcentral.com
www.dynamicdrive.com

^those are some sites i use for help^

also on your little 'news' area i would change the link color ... try to learn style sheets it can make your site cooler if you arent using one

also i dont really know much about dreamweaver i know i have it :P but i dont use it ... try using html and if you want to instead of using the templates i would try using an 'iframe' what you do is make your little navigation.html or something like that and you make that the navigation page then you go to your home page and type

iframe src="navigation.html" name="navigation" width="your width" height="your height" border="0"

(also put <> tags around it before iframe and the ending one after border="0")

im pretty sure thats the code... anyways you put that in and it appears

ahhh i remember when i used homestead... DONT! lol what i would do is look on a few of the links i gave you and learn some html by yourself and instead of using dreamweaver or the stupid homestead page builder thing and make your pages in notepad... i used to use those dumb things too so dont worry :P i started doing html about hmmm 2-3 years ago and heres my site www.targannet.com if you wanna check it out ... something else you might wanna do is buy a domain or something or get your own hosting i am hosted by flare85 or maybe its shadowflare85 in these forums idk but hes cool and i get hosting for 4.95 a month and 9.95 a year for the .com address so it comes out to be about 70 bucks a year which is very very very cheep (5x12+10=70 ... right?) anyways its a very good investment because you get like asp php mysql and everything else support pretty much! and its like 200-300 megs i think i dont really remember what i have... which is much better than what the 3 megs that homestead give ya... anyways you should check it out!

Wow... Thank you so much TaRgAn|matt and Chrono Archange. Especially TaRgAn|matt... I was trying to i frames, but I didn't know the right word at all... May ask you questions, when I change my site around with I-frames... They'll really will help me a lot. Thank you so much. Also I found the foldout menu, that's the one I was trying to find aswell.. Thank you so much...

Actually my host is Gamespy. I just posted my site on homestead because I won't be able to show the public on gamespy until the site is done. So I wanted to give a better presentation on how my site may work...

Thank you so much about the iframes. Thank you.

I know bit of html here and there. I'll try to use notepad...

Also your site is really nicely layed out and but a bit dark for my eyes, but really overall really well done.

Thank you for the help... Thank you.

[stAr-fire]

yah lots of people say its too dark so im trying to set up a skin thing so you can select skins etc... but it will be very hard the colors ill prolly do are
blue and dark blue and white
orange and white and dark orange
light blue and black and white

but yah another good tool i used to use for my site was .tk web rederection... so you could have www.pop.tk if it isnt taken but you could have www.poplegacy.tk or something just go to www.my.dot.tk and register for a free redirection... the only catch is one tiny little pop-up that isnt there with my lovely google searchbar :P but yah i used to have my site under www.targan.tk but then i purchased the .com and theres no way im goin back :P but it was good for what i was using and stuff but then i expanded a bunch and so on...
and your welcome with the iframes... (check out my old HORRIBLE targan website www.targan.100megsfree5.com i used regular frames but on the new one i have [www.targannet.com] i have used the iframes and they are much... MUCH! better anyways ya ... thanks... for the thanks :P

[RF]

If you want a template, just copy your main page and remove all the content. Then use copies of your empty page for spawning differnt pages.

I use php includes to change dynamic content on my pages. For example, take out all your code for your left links section, and place that into a differnt file, say links.php.

PHP Code:

<?PHP
 include("includes/links.php");
?>

Then, from there you can use php include code to include that links.php, wherever on your page you want it. Then when you want to edit your links menu, you only have to make changes in links.php, and not every single page that links menu is on. (I know other languages can do this too, but I dont know about them)

If you can find a host that supports php, and also want to get php up and running on your machine, take a look at this: tp://www.wowwebdesigns.com/power_guides/killer_trio_part_1.php

[stAr-fire]

i made a new template for my site it looks alot better and its legible :P check it out <a href="http://targannet.com/" target="_blank">www.TaRgAnNET.com</a>

yeh i want to learn php ive tried but its pretty confusing... i guess thats what i said about html when i was learning but now html is a breaze :P so i guess ill read up

[Zapages]

Thank you reicherfurher thank you for the simple explanation. It makes sense now to me... I didn't get it. I was trying to use the example should everyone but edit around but then template got messed up. But now I just don't touch the template I make and just do the changes where is nothing. *I think*

TaRagAn|matt, its a lot easier on the eyes now. One small question, how do may one iframe like to another iframe. For example I have characters. I want it to load to iframes. I want when you click one iframe it updates the data on the bottom. How is that possible. Also instead of having a scroll bar on the side of the iframe, how can I make it work so there is scrollbar for the index page? I was just wondering. Sorry I wasn't able to post earlier, I had a lot of Homework... Hopefully I get it all done by Sunday to work on PoP legacy. I'll show what I have done hopefully by sunday then.

Thank you for all the help. I really appreciate it.
Zapages

BTW: I don't php either... Its seems to me like C++, which I ok in, but it has been a long time since I did any C++...

[RF]

im not sure how the code would look like, but you need to give your frames names. Call your first fram something like BOB, then when you click on a link, you give it a target="BOB" extention. That will display the link in the frame named BOB.

[Razor Blade]

WTF am I seeing here?

[_E_]

/me heavily twats zapages with a large trout,...you screwed the thread! =/ I had to delete those posts.

Yours,
-Elly

[stAr-fire]

every time i put ^ that is a < or >


k when you make your iframe you put the iframe code and inside you name the iframe that you want lets say your news to appear in so you put ^iframe name="news" width="" height=""^ and all that so the name makes it all fancy then for the navigation iframe you want to put this in the link ^a href="thepage.theextension" target="news"^ thelink ^/a^ look there the target makes it send it to the iframe titled news so thats how you do it

[Zapages]

Thank you TaRgAn|matt, I can fully understand that now... I'll try that out. Sorry Elly, I for posting the code. I can't get the dhtml to work into the table... It only works in frames that I edited some prescribed code from www.dhtmlcentral.com.

I have uploaded the code in two notepad files. Test is the editted file from dhtml from. I'm trying to move it into the table and have it align as it is... But its hopless with my skills. I would really appreciate all the help. Thank you. You guys have really helped so far by a lot.

Thank you
Zapages

[stAr-fire]

here send me a pm and ill hook you up w/ my email and help ya out a little ... k dude