osCommerce and Frames

[Rodland]

I know frames are a bit naf nowadays but is there a way to have frames within an osCommerce shop - with the middle frame acting as the shop and the outer frames acting as links to basket / cashier / page links as well as links to login / language / currency etc.

 

I created this ages ago ... http://www.christianscott.com/

 

.. but need to update the shopping system now to something more managable --- but I gotta keep a similar design.

 

Any examples of framed sites around? ... and even better - some code to manage it.

 

Any help will help.

 

Christian

 

:)

[Rodland]

No Answer?

 

:cry: :cry: :cry:

 

Am I right in saying that all I need to do is copy and paste the links to the php files from any frame and it will work?

 

Christian

[burt]

On topic: Why do you feel you need to utilise frames ? What benefit do you feel you get from them - what benefit do they give your visitors ?

 

Off topic: It's incredibly poor form to attempt to control my browser size - when I visit a site I want to do so in my choice of browser size, not yours. I wouldn'y purchase from your site due to this, and I'm sure that a lot of other people wouldn't also.

 

HTH

[beckysmith]

I really hate that new window pop-up and framed screen..... the site design is nice but it's far too flashy. Keep things simple and people will buy. Customers like to bookmark pages too....

[Rodland]

Hi,

 

Thanks for your points.

 

First of all the frames have helped when the design was first created about 2 years ago. The design isn't the problem - the shopping system and the popup is, as well as a few other bits and bobs.

 

When I create the new shopping system the website will not control the browser size - this was a mistake - but we came from a cd-rom background and for us the browser itself has always been the thing that has got in the way of the user experience we try to create (hence a lot of flash developers tend to control the browser size).

 

Maybe when we can all access the web at the same speed as a cd-rom then we won't need a browser (there's a topic of thought!)

 

Anyway, this doesn't answer my question - can I still use frames with osCommerce? Just to know it can be done makes osCommerce more flexible in the design department --- which cannot be a bad thing.

 

Christian.

 

p.s. we do get orders - and we now average 20,000 hits per day :D

[Pica]

I am about to finish a frame-based layout for my shopping-cart based on OSC.

 

My only problem is the "expandable"-category-box as it goes over my framed space.

 

I do give high importance to design and layout in order to keep a website as close to it's original layout (mine) as possible. Frames are not a problem...

 

BTW, does anyone knows how to avoid the category-box from expanding?