For my dads website (www.atriskstoriesofhope.com) I want to consolidate a few of the links into the about page (the bio page, media, etc.).

I'll try to explain it to the best of my ability. On the about page I want to have some links above the iframe like this

Mission|Bio|Media|Pictures|Reviews

How would I get these individual pages to load into the iframe below these links (for example, mission.html, bio, html, media.html), ie, whats the tag format?

Also, when someone first navigates to the about page, at first there will be a promotional video playing in the Iframe. Is it possible to play the video in this iframe. Is there any possibility that I can't use the iframe tag in this manner?

Frames are evil and I wouldn't suggest using them. You can use Server Side scripting to do this.
But that's not what you asked.
All you need to do is name the main frame (ie. name="mainframe"). Then in the links you will just add target="mainframe". so your links would look similar to this:

<a href="mission.html" target="mainframe">Mission</a>

I am pretty sure this is the right way. I am a little rusty with frames though.

You can play your video in the frame when someone opens the site. Again, this is not the best practice, but it can be done. What type of video is it? Flash??

Originally Posted by angele803

Frames are evil and I wouldn't suggest using them. You can use Server Side scripting to do this.
But that's not what you asked.
All you need to do is name the main frame (ie. name="mainframe"). Then in the links you will just add target="mainframe". so your links would look similar to this:

<a href="mission.html" target="mainframe">Mission</a>

I am pretty sure this is the right way. I am a little rusty with frames though.

You can play your video in the frame when someone opens the site. Again, this is not the best practice, but it can be done. What type of video is it? Flash??

I don't think its flash. It's some kind of streaming video. THe video can be seen at atriskstoriesofhope.com/stories.html

About the frame, would the format be like so

I think the html below is how it needs to be done to make the links appear as so.

Mission|Bio|Media|Images|Reviews

[LEFT]<a href="mission.html" target="iframe1">Mission</a>|
<a href="Bio.html" target="iframe1">Bio</a>|[/LEFT]
 [LEFT]<a href="media.html" target="iframe1">Media</a>|
<a href="Images" target="iframe1">Images|</a>[/LEFT]
      [LEFT]<a href="Reviews" target="iframe1">Reviews|</a>[/LEFT]
 [LEFT]



[/LEFT]
 [LEFT]<iframe     name="iframe1" src="promodvd.htm" align="top" height="100" width="400" hspace="10" vspace="10">
If you can see this, your browser does not support iframes![/LEFT]
      </iframe>

Originally Posted by angele803

Frames are evil and I wouldn't suggest using them. You can use Server Side scripting to do this.
But that's not what you asked.
All you need to do is name the main frame (ie. name="mainframe"). Then in the links you will just add target="mainframe". so your links would look similar to this:

<a href="mission.html" target="mainframe">Mission</a>

I am pretty sure this is the right way. I am a little rusty with frames though.

You can play your video in the frame when someone opens the site. Again, this is not the best practice, but it can be done. What type of video is it? Flash??

I don't think its flash. It's some kind of streaming video. THe video can be seen at atriskstoriesofhope.com/stories.html

About the frame, would the format be like so

I think the html below is how it needs to be done to make the links appear as so.

Mission|Bio|Media|Images|Reviews

<a href="mission.html" target="iframe1">Mission</a>|
<a href="Bio.html" target="iframe1">Bio</a>|
 
<a href="media.html" target="iframe1">Media</a>|
<a href="Images" target="iframe1">Images|</a>
<a href="Reviews" target="iframe1">Reviews|</a>
 

 
<iframe     name="iframe1" src="promodvd.htm" align="top" height="100" width="400" hspace="10" vspace="10">
If you can see this, your browser does not support iframes!
</iframe>

Yes, I believe that code should work.

And to get your video to work, just put this in your promodvd.htm file:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
	codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" 
	width="319" 
	height="177" 
	align="middle">
	<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
	<param name="movie" value="/cstream/cstream.swf?mediacvc=/rare/raredvd_1046.cvc">
	<param name="quality" value="high" />
	<param name="scale" value="noscale" />

	<param name="wmode" value="opaque" /> 
	<param name="menu" value="0" /> 
    <param name="salign" value="lt" />
	<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
<embed src="/cstream/cstream.swf?mediacvc=/rare/raredvd_1046.cvc"
	quality="high" 
	scale="noscale" 
	bgcolor="#000000" 
	width="319" 
	height="177" 
	wmode="opaque"
	align="middle" 
	menu="0"
    salign="lt"
	allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" 
	type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
	pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />    
</object>

It should automatically start playing


*edit* I just noticed that the size of the video is bigger than the size you declared for the iframe. You should be able to adjust the video size in the code, or you can change the size of your iframe.