New to web design here, self learner... I have been building a website to be read from a hard drive on my pc. I will be putting this website online, later on. I was wondering why, when viewing this website through Internet Explorer from my hard drive, that a few of the links that I have visited are not changing color for some reason? Does it have something to do with what I named the home page or index page? Or, maybe because I used frames or is it something in the html code?

Question... What is the correct way in html to use frames? The way I have it set up, is one page for each page pointing towards, two pages to be set up side by side. And, right now I have 105 pages for a 52 page website. Is this the correct way of doing this?

Question... When setting up a meta-tag on a website, does it need to be on every page and frame of a website?

Some links for you to get started.

CSS Links
http://wwd.w3schools.com/css/css_link.asp
Shows you how the styles go into the head section of the html
http://wwd.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_link2
Shows you how to use external style sheet instead of in the head of each page
http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_howto.asp

Frames
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_frames.asp

Meta Tags
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp

Good Luckv:)

I want to caution you before using frames. Make sure you do the research first. It is not a highly suggested way to build a web page. Just make sure it is what you want to do before you begin building. The alternatives to research would be: tables (also not suggested, but good for beginners), or positioning elements using CSS.

Good luck.

Let us know if we can help in any other way.

I agree with Eric; frames are a recipe for trouble because of the way browsers render them. Still, if this is just to be viewed from your own hard drive, presumably by yourself only, then any of the rendering problems usually encountered won't be an issue, as long as it views OK with your browser of choice. However, putting it online is the killer for this theory and though it will still view the same with your browser, it may break badly with others. Frames were designed back in the day for specific tasks and web-building technology has moved on from them, along with browser support so unless really necessary, it might pay to change it, though with as many pages as you have, I realise this is a mission.

Meta tags are for web-based sites and again, if this was only to run from your hard drive, they are not really needed at all. When you post on the web though, they should include information about the site that bots and search engines can pick up so they know where to index it in results pages. Usually only one or two pages of the site need meta-tags, namely the index and, if one exists, the site map perhaps, but you have to be careful as some search engines penalise sites with keywords and other attention-getting tags on every page of the site.

Good luck.

Dunno about that one - when i build sites EVERY page has keywords and description metatags - you must be sure to make them all different from the other pages and relevant to the page/site content though

Yep - and ditch the frames - more trouble than they're worth - either code each page or use php includes...

A little bird told me Google doesn't even use keywords anymore.

Hush little birdie, don't say a word

Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird

The new little birdie told me recently in lots of newsletters including one from Google, that they "will" be using keywords again very soon

If that mockingbird don't sing

Papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring

lol Lowell, I just got up, it's too early for such silliness!! hehehe