I'm new at this whole webdesigning and I've really tried looking around at something that could help me out. There were times I've came close but just didn't understand it clear enough. Like I said, I'm a newbie so I need something that can easily explain to me how I can fix my problem.

I don't want to use iframes because I don't think it's really the best solution, however, I have many web pages on my website and so I would like to use div or something similar to iframes without actually using iframes. My other question would be is how would I open up web pages by clicking on a link to open in that "frame" instead of a new page.

If anyone could help me explain that would be great.

Thank you!

My first question is.. why do you want to open new pages inside such a 'frame' ?? Why avoid new pages ?

You can do what you describe with divs, but it will take some scripting to make it work.

I change my template designs constantly so don't want to have to change the design on every single page. I want to change it on my main page, for example index.html and have all my other pages open on the right side of my website when i click on links on my navigation menu which is located on the left side of my website.

I understand that it will take some scripting, and i'm very eager to learn because I really want to make this work for my website.

Thank you!

Soo... you don't want ALL your pages to be indexed by the search engine spiders - because doing what you propose will do just that - prevent the spiders from indexing those pages.

If you properly use CSS, then you can change an entire site by changing your CSS only, depending on how you do your layout.

I understand, all my page are actually index.html, they're all in their own directory's

Could you suggest any links that could benefit me in learning css and that is very easy to understand for starters like me?

Thank you!

a great online source would be http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

Sitepoint has 2 great books that helped me learn ALOT:
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/html1/
and
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/css2/

You might also look into server side includes. They can be a little difficult to understand when you are a newbie, but basically, they pull in pieces of code from a file. When you use Server Side Includes (SSI's), you will ultimately achieve the same goal as using frames, but SSI's are much better to use than frames.

sorry WHAT?! why the hell ah ve you stuck all yopur pages in their own folder? if you want it to have your URLs like domain.com/about instead of /about.php it can be done with Mod Rewrite whcih is MUCH cleaner

OR a much simpilar way is to make it template based.

so i have it quite simple and have like

PHP Code:

$content = 'this is the text which appears in the mnain content';
 
include ('style/'.$style.'/template.php');
?> 


quite easy to do that way.
and quicker to make the pages

Dan

If you are really not wanting iframes, but you still want the text and pages to be indexed. You could always use php includes which put a header and footer within the page. That would enable you to change just the header and footer and leave everything else the same.