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Ok, ... so I didn't know much about frames before I started, and thanks to GoLive and Dreamweaver me and my guy managed to futz our way through (and learn a LOT along the way) getting frames to work properly - sort of...

I have 2 issues left I really haven't been able to resolve, or find answers for in hunting through past posts and Gear.

I understand that the keenspace coding for ***first*** and ***last*** can be replaced with html code (including the target="_parent" to get it to open the full window instead of displaying just in the frame) because these links never change, now as far as I can see this trick will not work for ***previous*** and ***next*** because those links are constantly changing. -- If anyone has any suggestions how I can work around that - I'd appreciate it - but I can't see any option right now but to leave those links broken - or take em out entirely.

The more serious issue would be the dailytemplate.html - my understanding was/is that this page should be identical to indextemplate.html (or at least can be), and should work just fine - right now while the code for indextemplate.html is working beautifully - dailytemplate.html still isn't referencing the other html pages for the frames (ie it's displaying empty frames and says 'this file not found"). The frame references point at sideframe.html etc sideframe.html (and it's cohorts) are loaded into the webpages folder of the workspace folder. Initially we had the links pointing at /webpages/sideframe.html but that wasn't working for EITHER template - when Gear gave me the idea that pages in webpages should just read user.keenspace.com/thispage not user.keenspace.com/webpages/this page. When I took the webpages reference out of the point in the indextemplate.html it fixed things very nicely - but I don't understand why dailytemplate.html which is identical is NOT working.

Confused
http://feychild.keenspace.com

Your problem is that it is your dailytemplate that has frames in it -- so anytime the archive goes back, it opens a frame inside a frame inside a frame, etc.

What I did is create a page called main.htm which takes care of the frames, and made it link to the navigation on the left, the title at the top, and the URL for my comic (so, it links to saioh.keenspace.com, and not to index.html or anything along those lines). The only frame that changes is the inside one, so it works well.

The setback to this is that all the links to your comic within keenspace will link to the non-frame site. I don't know how I'd recommend fixing this, except maybe suggesting that it be only indextemplate.html that contains frames.

The more serious issue would be the dailytemplate.html - my understanding was/is that this page should be identical to indextemplate.html (or at least can be)

It can be, yes, but doesn't have to be. I think it's alright if you don't include frames in it.

by deafault, if you don't add a base URL to the tags, the next and previous buttons will load the page within the frame it was in, which will be pretty much what you want anyway, is it not?