Hi

How can I  add a left hand navigation pane to my forum? I am using ver 7 final.

Many  thanks

Will

Sorry Borg

Im not quite with you! I dont see how thea header or footer can give me something down one side

Will

Because that is how HTML is made up - do a view source and paste into your chosen editor of HTML for one of these pages, you will see that where the code has to come... then edit the top and the bottom accordingly..

Header - create table two columns, put nav in the left hand side column and the forum info in the right

Footer - close off additional html tags (i.e. table)

HTH's

Gerry

I have made my table but the forum is below it! How do I insert the forum into the 2nd colum?

Thanks

The simpleset way is to build your page with tables, place everything where is should be and have a space where the forum should display.

Then place evrything before the place for the forum in the header file and everything after the forum should be in the footer file.

Right I am now getting some where, still not right though

I now have a table at the top of my page the correct width with my links in. The only trouble is the forum starts under this table.

What am I doing wrong, thanks for all your help so far

Will

You need to cut tables in half.

Say you have a table that you want the forum to be in the middle of then you would place the opening part in the header:-

<table>
<tr>
<td>

Then the closing tags for that table in the footer:-

</td>
</tr>
</table>

It's useful to learn how to do this as there are many things on the web like payment systems, asp apps, etc. that use this type of system to intergrate pages into sites.

Hoooray,

I have finaly done it thanks very much Borg!

Regards

Will

Just one more thing how does the forum know to go in the header.asp page? Where is the code that does this?

Will

If I get this question right...

The header and footer are both included with SSI on all pages like this:
<!--#include file="header.asp" -->

SSI is very good for including other pages and codes into your own page. It´s making the update etc. of your page much easier.

Excuse my ignorance, but what am SSI?

Will

SSI is Server Side Include.

It is basically a file that you can include in multiple pages or files, this is carriedout server side by the web server, saves you re-writing the same ASP, HTML, etc. code multiple times.

SSI stands for Server Side Include. To do this short!

Maybe you have an www-page with a menu at the left. You have a lot of pages and to put that menu on all pages could take some time, special when you have to update the menu. You must do the changing on every pages, it takes time and it´s easy that something goes wrong.

So, put your menu in a separate file/page and then just include it to every pages you want the menu to appear. When you have to change something, just do the changing in the included file and it changes on every sites.

Your server must support ASP-pages (dynamical) to use SSI.

I hope that you understand my english. If you want I can do a little SSI-demo and send it to you...

jabbasabba

Thanks for explaining that to me, a demo of SSI would be a great help thanks.

Will