[Shanj]

Thank you kindly Logician. I just woke up and found your lovely reply.

I was beginning to wonder what that iframe stuff was that came up on this thread sometimes. Should have looked it up. I did that now.

In the parent webtemplate I put

<iframe src ="http:/www.mysite.com/forums/view_child.htm"      width="100%" height=""></iframe>

100% width is controlled by the parent table cell.

Hmm. Just as a final flourish it would be nice to archive the previous item in an accessible way to the user. Little bit like a blog.
Let's see ...
# Parent webtemplate (html) has iframe for updating info+pic item. This links to child1 (text).
At the bottom of this iframed column (table cell) AFTER the iframe is a link to child2 (text) archive page labelled "More." Placing after iframe ensures that editing the iframe content doesn't blitz this link!

# Open both child1 and child2 in separate windows.
Webedit (text): Cut item 1 text+pic from child1.
Webedit (text): Paste it into child2 archive page.
This is not narrow column, but full width centre content. So can hold quite a few before pagination necessary.

# Webedit (text): Paste or type new item into child1.

# Child1 (pic+text) updated appears in the iframe on parent.
Child2 displays archived items full page spread.

If anyone can see better shortcut on the archiving please tell me.

Or would I be better finding a simple blog and inserting it in the iframe?
No - not for me because all I want is to update a news/ info/ announcement item. No comments etc. But i would like to have the older items archived for users to read.