Inline frames, die, die, die (aka please help!)

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From: Stefan (Stefan_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:21:03 -0800

This seemingly simple problem continues to drive me round the bend... Sorry
for the verbose note:

In my site (www.aaltenvoogd.com) I have included a discussion forum, blog,
chat and picture gallery by using inline frames. I'm aware they are a Bad
Thing. They cause (predictably...) problems in not resizing* how I want them
to and scrollbars appearing where I don't want them. I have tried to make the
best of a bad deal but it is not satisfactory. Also, I don't want the
forum/blog/etc. to overtake the entire window but to be contained in the
space I have allocated for it. For example, after logging in on the Forum it
opens in the whole window, leaving the user with no navigation to the rest of
my site.

What I would like to achieve, for each of these four sections of my site, is
to display them on a single page which uses my site design (little flashmovie
top left, global menu at the top, etc.) and has the content in the main
panel. If scrollbars are required then I would like these to appear in the
browser window, NOT in the frame inside the browser window.

I have explored the use of include pages and server side includes but these
don't achieve the desired effect either. The forum and picture gallery are
PHP files and "including" a PHP file does not have any effect at all (even
though my local system and my web host both have PHP correctly installed and
running) - you just get a blank page where the php should appear. The blog
points to my blog on a separate site.

I have posted questions about this here before and have had some help or
pointers but all to no avail unfortunately.

Using FrontPage 2003 and Dynamic Web Templates.

I would be very grateful for any help on this one!

Many thanks,
Stefan

* Frame resizing: width is set at 100% and horizontal resizing behaviour is
correct, but setting height to 100% the frame does not resize how it should
and I have therefore had to retain a fixed height.

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