I’d like to get a special web page designed and I’d like some advice. To put a specification together I need to be sure that what I propose is possible and, if so, I need to use terms that the designer will understand. I have daily readers who scan up to 6 websites every day to get updated daily info. To make it easy for them I would like my special webpage to have links to those pages at the top and a large preview pane beneath. When they load my page the 6 specific pages from the 6 websites will load in the background. The preview pane will initially be loaded with my welcome message. When the user mouseovers a link the associated web page will load in the preview pane and stay there. When the user mouseovers another link, the new web page will load etc. The user should be able to mouseover any link in any sequence and get the associated web page. I’d like my content on the page (header, footer, sidebar, my welcome page) to score for SEO but not the material from the other sites. If the material can’t be separated for SEO purposes then the entire page can be excluded. Is what I propose possible and, if so, how best would I express my request to a designer? I am particularly interested in making sure a prospective designer uses the latest and most efficient web design techniques and not older technologies. To illustrate, I’ve heard that Frames is old technology. If this is the case, I would rather not be bamboozled into going in this direction. One last thought, does what I propose have any legal/copyright consequences? If it does then I guess I can open a new, smaller browser window just beneath my links and have the links switch the contents of the new browser window. Thanks in advance for any help.
Express it exactly as you have here - as you wouldnt go to your doctor and say that you need an appendectomy but that you have a pain in your side and let the expert decide what you need. It sounds like what you are needing to use are iframes or frames to achieve what you want
Iframes will do that for you. Please make a search for the iframe tag and see its parameters/properties.
I agree with Talker. IFrames may be the way to go, and depending the way you have those other sites setup, you may just be able to grab their feeds and display it dynamically using AJAX techniques or something. GL