Hello,

I am interested in writting a homepage that would contain links for my charity mall site on the top and the CNN website in the lower 3/4 of the screen. I want any link from either page to result in subsequent pages opening in the full window. I know I could use frames but the CNN links would continue to open inside the 3/4 page frame window.

Can anyone suggestion a language I should look into that may provide this, Java, PHP, DHTML. This is probably way more work then it is worth but I am looking at it more as a learning experience.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Andy Murray
www.MurrayCharityMall.com

You should be able to use frames. I don't recall the code offhand but you can tell a link to open in a new window, not the one it's currently located in. I think it involves target="_blank" or "_new" in the href tag. Should work for frames too.

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Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunetly the frames target command will not work on the links inside the CNN website as I can not add them.

Andy

I see what you're saying. I thought the CNN site might be a conglomeration of info that you had pulled from the original CNN site.

You might want to check w/ CNN first to see if they have a problem w/ you doing this. It's possible there's a copyright or trademark issue if you're serving up their site through your site, especially if you have ads on your site; it would be like making money (or getting hits) through their work. (I don't know if there is, but the way companies are acting nowadays about intellectual property, it's safest just to ask first).

Once you've gotten approval (or at least not been told "no"), you might consider using div's or layers to create your site. Have one layer/div at the top w/ your mall info and the lower layer/div containing CNN. Theoritically, when a link is clicked it should open up to the entire page.

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You are right about the copyright issue. I am trying to just create my own IE homepage. I just wanted a reminder for myself about the shopping site everytime I open the browser but would like CNN as my homepage.

As for your suggestion on Div/Layer I could not find how I would display the CNN site using these tags. They don't seem to have the src attribute like a frame. Am I missing something?

The more I read the less I think this is possible because of the chance of the feature being exploited.

Thanks any ways

Andy

The only other thing I can think of is to make a "portal" for yourself. Have the mall on top and just take the news feeds from CNN on the rest of the page. Since it wouldn't be the actual CNN site, just the feeds, then there shouldn't be a copyright issue. And using the feeds would be easier to work with. It would be like going to the home pages for Yahoo or Netscape or like Google News.

I remember reading a few years back about how to do that but I don't recall anymore. CNN may have some info on their site about pulling a feed for yourself; you might be able to do it w/ RSS and run the feed to your site instead of an RSS reader.

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I see what you are saying. I'll look into the news feeds.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Have a good weekend.

Andy