Creating a column of linnks and stuff on left side...

I just switched and imported from a UBB to vB. One of the things I miss from the UBB is the way I was able to add a column of links on the left which was visible on every forum page.

I did it by adding code to the header and footer fields in the control panel... in effect creating a table so that the links where in a narrow cell on the left, and the body of the forums was in the larger cell on the right. Then I closed the table in the footer field.

Does the same thing apply to vB? Anybody do this? Is there any site with common easy customizations? Thanks!

i can't think of one site that i regularly go to that has frames. The only one i ever did was javascript.com but i think that has changed now, i just got so fed up with it i stopped going.

True it was partly to do with the old browsers. It is possible to do them well, if you ensure there is no double scroll bar. But then i find you just waste so much space where ever the navigation is.

In the end frames are just a cheap way out of making a navigation bar. It is so easy to do it with php includes or headers and footers there is really no need for frames anymore.

Oh i just thought o a site i use that has frames, http://www.dvdplus.co.uk and you have no idea how much it annoys me they have frames there, especially when resolution is high. They also have masses of javascript to deal with "i right click and opened in a new window" but the amount of times i get errors or frames inside frames.. it is just not worth it. DON'T do frame (IMHO)

Frames are the work of the devil!

Try bookmarking a part of a frames based site...

Or... of more concern to you... to where will your users go to view the latest replies to a topic which they signed up to receive email notification on ? If they go to the page in the email, you'll have no navbar present, if they go to the main forum page, they'll have to search through til they find the reply they're looking for...

No - don't do it!

I went through much trouble to eliminate the frames from my site. I agree w/ Craig Anthill, don't do it.

-jim

Ok you've all convinced me. <tail between legs> No frames. I went and used the table into the head and footer fields instead. Thanks all!

and it looks really good. One thing, set the left hand column to "top" so that the side bar appears more to the top of the page. i think that would make it look even better!

Thanks Chris! I'll give it a try!