FRAMES
Overview

Here is an overview of the FRAMES feature of HexWeb Index Pro

After you have exported your actual issue from QuarkXPress or CopyDesk,
you can easily let HexWeb Index create the following user interface:

Click the image below to browse the FRAMES example document shown here online:

This HTML page is divided into 5 different frames:

1. Header frame, which contains a header HTML document, including company logos, etc.

2. Category header frame, which contains all active categories listed in sequence. By selecting these links, the appropriate table of contents area is scrolled automatically.

3. Table of contents frame, where you have all articles of your issue sorted by category, with the defined headline as a link to the document.

4. Articles/body frame. When you click one of the links in the table of contents, this frame will be updated; all other elements remain static.

5. Footer frame, where you can define an HTML document that displays buttons, image maps, etc.

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What is FRAMES?

The frames feature of Netscape Navigator 3.0 is a sophisticated page presentation capability that enables the display of multiple, independently scrollable frames on a single screen, each with its own distinct URL. Frames can point to different URLs as well as be targeted by other URLs - all within the same screen. Web designers can now incorporate banners, buttons, tables of contents, and display panels into their designs, allowing users to scroll through multiple sites simultaneously, submit database queries in one frame and receive back instant results in another, and even freeze regions of the screen in place while the user scrolls through information on another page.

ORGANIZATION

A page or screen can be divided into sections called frames. Each frame contains its own unique URL, allowing users to scroll through multiple sites simultaneously.

NAVIGATION

Queries executed in one frame can generate results in another frame, simplifying navigation by reducing the need to jump back and forth between screens.

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HexWeb Index Pro FRAMES Preferences

HexWeb Index has a built-in Frame Editor, where you can define what frame elements you want to have in your interface:

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The Header frame

In this setting you can define the document that will be shown in the header frame. Please note that the header.html and footer.html have to be located in the GIFs folder in the defined main path folder, in this exercise the Archive folder. The height can be defined in the size box. You can also define whether the frame has scrollbars or if it should be resizeable.

If you do not want to use the header frame, you can turn it off by clicking the "Use this frame" checkbox. The screen image will show you an overview of how a document could look without a header frame.

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The Footer Frame

The footer frame can be defined in the same way as the header frame.

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The Index and Document frames

In this dialog you can set up the main article document which will appear in the Article/body frame when the Web page is opened. Here we have defined it to be the start.html document, which is in the main path GIFs folder.

The relational width of the article frame is set up as 65%, so the table of contents occupies 35% of the window width (100%-65%=35%).

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The Category Frame

The category frame contains the categories you have used in your issue. The purpose of this frame is to make it quick and easy to navigate through long tables of contents. When you click a category name, that category moves to the top of the table of contents list.

Here you can define the height of the category frame. The document "category.html" is created automatically by HexWeb Index.

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