paul_r
23rd April 2006, 01:59 PM
What's an i Frame? You can use iFrames to display website pages almost anywhere you like within an area of your own site. These can be a page you create on your own site or you can display an external site or page within your site.
For example, if you want to add a guestbook, one way you can do that is to install the Guestbook available in Installatron - the application autoinstaller you'll find in your main domain control panel. You COULD then just add a link to the Guestbook which would open in a page of it's own. However it might look much better if it's integrated within a page on your site, so that the header and menu remain visible. This is considerably more user friendly as users can navigate back from the Guestbook to the rest of the site in the same way they would with any other page.
So ... to do that first create a new blank page and call it 'Guestbook' (ok that's not imaginative, but it'll do). To use an iFrame go to the Guestbook page -> click on 'Edit layout' on the top tab -> look for the 'Create a new box' symbol on the top menu icons -> from the drop down list select 'Widgets' -> iFrame box. From there you can define the URL of the page you want to open in the box (in this case wherever you installed the Guestbook to) and draw the box whatever size and position you want on the page.
There are few more things for you to fiddle with there - to choose whether to allow the page in the iFrame to scroll, or make it a fixed size etc. Play around and see what works for you - now you know how to get at the iFrame you can change it anytime.
For example, if you want to add a guestbook, one way you can do that is to install the Guestbook available in Installatron - the application autoinstaller you'll find in your main domain control panel. You COULD then just add a link to the Guestbook which would open in a page of it's own. However it might look much better if it's integrated within a page on your site, so that the header and menu remain visible. This is considerably more user friendly as users can navigate back from the Guestbook to the rest of the site in the same way they would with any other page.
So ... to do that first create a new blank page and call it 'Guestbook' (ok that's not imaginative, but it'll do). To use an iFrame go to the Guestbook page -> click on 'Edit layout' on the top tab -> look for the 'Create a new box' symbol on the top menu icons -> from the drop down list select 'Widgets' -> iFrame box. From there you can define the URL of the page you want to open in the box (in this case wherever you installed the Guestbook to) and draw the box whatever size and position you want on the page.
There are few more things for you to fiddle with there - to choose whether to allow the page in the iFrame to scroll, or make it a fixed size etc. Play around and see what works for you - now you know how to get at the iFrame you can change it anytime.