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Janster
30th December 09, 05:33 PM
Greetings!!
Ok...I'm as new as they come. From PA...a Machine Operator by trade and a hobbyist in terms of the internet and web design. I have a personal website that's 9+ years old with 76,000+ hits - and has tons of pages & **** in it. I'm almost embarrassed to show it to you...but hey.... everything I've done was 9 years ago (essentially) and I did it on a prayer as I learned. :P
http://www.lieblweb.com/

It's time for a redesign!!! The thing is....my learning hasn't caught up with the world. :( I just learned how to install a favicon last week!! :D
I'm also limited with time...not much time to learn this stuff...not much time to apply it. With a couple new computers, Windows 7, and new CS3 Web Premium - I've got tons of learning to do!!! I use Dreamweaver.

Ok...I've been reading, researching, watching videos & looking at books. I'm going the CSS route and I understand how that works (for the most part).

Frames are old school - and I know that. But eventually, I'd like to design a basic framework (side/top bars with buttons/links) that'll be used on every page/have CSS style sheet to control all of it.

My question ... if I want to add a button to the current structure - how can you change it ONCE and reflect the changes in every page running that original structure?
I've been told to use iframes... (?? isn't this a continuation of old school?)
I'm strictly working with HTML and that's even mindboggling to use.
Gawd I feel like such a retard!!! What is best for this newbie?
Thanks for the help!

rkrause
30th December 09, 07:31 PM
Hi,

The simple way is to make the button a background image, then just either rename the image file that has your background image to match the css, or change the name of the image path in the css to match the image name in the file.

Ryan.