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The ELATED PageKits readme.


If you're reading this, well done! So many people would never bother...

The idea behind the PageKits is that you can either use the ideas here as is, and develop them from our startpoints, or you can take the bits that you need (like the basic frameset) and customise them for your own use. Obviously, to make the best use of them you'll need to know some basic html.

If the menus are not precisely what you're looking for, some of the kits feature extra buttons that you can substitute for the existing ones. Also, if there is an irrelevent section in the menu, you can often just chop out the offending menu item without destroying the design. This won't work so well on "online" and "stripes", since there are images in the background that are part of the menu items.

The following is a load of stuff relating to internal & external links for a framed site.

FRAMESETS.

Remember the frames golden rule: TARGETS. These tell your code where to put a page in the frameset, and refer back to the NAME tag on the index page. For example, if you wanted to put a page in the big frame the target would be "main" in the link tag, where the given name for the frame is "main" in index.html. Look at the source for the menu to see it in action.

It'll go something like this...

<a href="whatever.html" target="main"><img.......></a>

The target tag will depend on the actual name given on the index page, so if you're having troubles, make sure you have this right.

BTW, if you're linking to another site and want the site to replace yours in the existing window, the target tag is:

target="_top"

It's important that this is lower case!

If you want the link to open as another window, the target is this:

target="blank"

Otherwise, this is all fairly simple stuff. All normal html rules apply!

Good hunting.....

The elated team