Alternative to frames

[Elemental Child]

What are the best alternatives to frame navigation.

When I first built my site I had no idea of the negativity of frames and how many browsers don't support them.

I'd like to change them but what's the alternative?

The reason I had frames was to provide a nav in a gallery. I need the ability to scroll through a large number of images.

[wizard]

iframes?

I don't know, that's just my guess. Keep in mind that my HTML skills are about a 3/10. :D

[Digitalosophy]

The reason I had frames was to provide a nav in a gallery. I need the ability to scroll through a large number of images.

I've seen plenty of javascript scrollers, of course most won't work crossbrowser, but I've seen some that do.

I wish I had a link for you.

Lostinbeta's old website was the sickest thing I've ever seen in javascript yet. He scrolled his entire interface, although I remembered it only worked for IE.

Do you know how to use Flash? That could be an option for the images your speaking of, or maybe some type of other setup?

I.E. Next >> Previous, something like that?

[Elemental Child]

I now Flash a little,

I might create on in Flash if I find the time.

But I was hoping for something faster and less messy(less on the good old actionscript and all that).

[Yeldarb]

Can I see an example of what you're trying to do (the frame based one maybe?). I think I have an idea, but I'd have to see it, because I think I may be way off base.

[Elemental Child]

yeldarb, you mean you'd like to see my site?

here's the link:
Gallery Link (http://www.zelenovsky.com/Paintings.html)

the frames menu, as you can see, is on the left hand side. :snug:

[Yeldarb]

Why not just do something like this?

And also something that I noticed is that whil you have "thumbnails" (small size), they are actually the full size picture resized with HTML. It basically defeats the purpose of thumbnails because the computer downloads the full sized image. You should resize them and save them as imageThumb.jpg or whatever and have that be what the image displays with a link to the page that has the full sized image.

[Elemental Child]

hmm... that is a thought,

thanks yeldrab, I'll give that a think over. That is a good idea! :p:

Now, would that be using iFrames?

thanks for pointing out my html impers, you got a point!

Thanks,


More suggestions are welcome though!!!