[Warlock]

I'm currently toying around with a new layout for my RPG group's site. But I've run into a little snag. Everything seems to be running fine until you try to post in the forums. It works, just things lag up a bit, typing , page loading, etc.

Anyone have any ideas as to why ? I thought it might be the background image I've got behind the Iframes, but removing that completely had no change.

Here's the layout

BTW I know it mostly looks like hell still I wanted to flush out this bug before I finished redoing graphics and such.

Thanks

[Stealth]

Hey

Just curious as to why you're running iFrames when regular frames would be better, and would look exactly the same.  is there a reason i'm missing?

[Warlock]

Originally posted by Stealth
Hey

Just curious as to why you're running iFrames when regular frames would be better, and would look exactly the same.  is there a reason i'm missing?

One reason is the nav-bar on the left doesn't look right as it's own frame, the background attempts to tile all over.

the main reason is the simple one, the transperancy effect. Being able to use one background on all pages and have the iframes over top yet being able to se the background through it. If I'm able to get this to work I'm going to work more towards having the rest of the site look similar to the navigation bar, sort of the holopad look if you will.

[Lonestar]

Its the Fixed background causing your stuttering when scrolling. Along with the Iframe too. Ive had the same problem, so i dont use IFrames that much anymore. Too plagued with browser compatibility problems to bother, who wants to make two website just so people on other browser can see ur work?

I suggest to go to frames, and slice the background up, so in the menu section u have one peice of the background and in another frame another peice and so on. Like a puzzle.

I see what your trying to do, there are better ways. You could make the entire site a table, and have the table have a trasparent background. This way you can divide the site in as many sections as you want, and not have to worry about the background getting screwed up. A table without a specified background color, takes the background of the page.

it will work with tables man, might save you a headache or two as well, and u can still use an IFRAME in the cells so ur forums can appear wherever you want.

[Warlock]

Cool I'll try messing around with that.

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Warlock
Cool I'll try messing around with that.

I remember when i first learned IFrames, exciting. However be careful with them. They can end up causing more trouble then they are worth. If you have ASP or PHP support u might want to try using Includes instead of Iframes.

If you ever have questions warlock shoot me an email, ill be glad to help any way i can:

[email protected]

[Warlock]

Cool thanks

The fun part is figuring all this out, since every single thing I know about doing a webpage I've learned by doing, frying, and redoing

[Kamikaze]

Have you considered using an external syle sheet? It'd make it a helluva lot easier to read/edit..... just put this in your head:

Code: [Select]


...

...

and just put it where the link element specifies.