Linking GIFs not using HTML? Also Frames ?....

[Dimitriy]

Ok can we link a GIF during the photo editing process? As opposed to doing it through html.

Also if the above doesnt pan out I have another idea. Now basicly I have a navigation menu and its horrible but I have to work with its interface. I am wondering can you stick a frame into a cell? If so what sort of graphic options would you reccommend for the frame to be "invisible" or at least not cause any distrubtion in the cell. Basicly have the navigation on a different page and when you need to update it you need to only change on navigation file. I am using NVU by the way for editing.

Thanks in advance,
Dimitriy

[Waterfront]

If I understand your question correctly, just use an include file. You can update the one file (i.e. navigation.htm) and it will change across the whole site.

[Dimitriy]

But how do I make it so that its not in a frame? Eg. the picture is the link regardless of the html code.

[occastles]

Ok can we link a GIF during the photo editing process? As opposed to doing it through html.

No. You need a href tag to make a hyper link. You could possibly do it using javascript or even possibly CSS, but not imbedded into the graphics itself.

[ryanmathis83]

Ok can we link a GIF during the photo editing process? As opposed to doing it through html.

Yes you can. I'm not sure what editing software you use but if you use Photoshop you are able to do that. I do not recommend this approach but technically speaking you are able to do that during the photo editing process.

And your other question...do not use frames. Stick with tables and css or move to php.

Sorry, I did not read your entire post about NVU. I'm not sure with them, I have never heard of the program, but yes it is possible in Photoshop and a few other brand name programs.

[occastles]

but if you use Photoshop you are able to do that.

I use Photoshop... and I've never seen anything like that. Could you walk me through the steps to create an image that has the link built in and you don't need HTML?

So what you are saying is, if I create an image called "new-image.gif", anywhere I use this <img src="new-image.gif"> it will be a hyperlink... and you don't need a <a href> </a> tag?

[REW Tristan]

Ok, I'm new here in the forums. So be gentle

From what I understand:

You have a naviation menu (with our or with out images) and you want it to appear across multiple pages, and you want to make it so its really easy to manage and update? So you could just change one file and it would change across all of them? You could do this quite easily with frames as you say and I"m pretty sure you could stick them in a table so.. something like.

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>
       frame code in here that links to navigation.html
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

Then you could just copy and paste that chunk of code onto each page that requires the navigation. I dont actually know the iframe code off by heart, but im sure it has options like NO BORDER or NO SCROLLING or something to make it 'appear' seamless in the page.

The other option and much better in my opinion is to use PHP includes. But that requires a php webserver (which yours probably is actually) and a little bit of knowledge of php. But I'd be happy to share it with you if you'd like. Hope this helps in some way or another.

Tristan

[occastles]

If you want a menu that easy to maintain and included in all your pages, just make your page a .shtml and use this to make an external file appear on your page.

<!--#include virtual="/menu.html"-->

This will take the menu.html file and pull it into whatever .shtml file you are loading. Not all you have to do is change the menu.html file and every .shtml page on your website will reflect the new and improved menu.

[REW Tristan]

Ahh yes, thats more or less what I was getting at with PHP. But that seems much easier. I wasn't aware .shtml had those abilities. Good to note.