PLACE THE KIDSRANCH IN A FRAME ON YOUR OWN SITE
(My thanks to Tony Whittaker at http://www.web-evangelism.com/
for suggesting and writing these instructions for this idea.)
Instead of making a normal link to the KidsRanch, you can link to it within a
frame, so that visitors stay within your own site, and the KidsRanch appears to
be a 'branded' resource linked with your site.
The rest of your site does not need to be within frames. You just create a
link to the page yourname.html and this automatically loads topbar.html and
the KidsRanch below it.
If you already use frames within your site, you can still use this option, or
else just make the KidsRanch one of the links from a framed menu.
The first page, for the purpose of this demonstration, is called topbar.html
though of course you can give it any name you wish.
It creates a long narrow frame at the top of the browser window. This bar
offers a link back to the rest of your site. You can choose a background
color and/or also include a background graphic to match the rest of your site.
You can use your site name or other appropriate title in a style which matches
the rest of your site in the center of the frame. If you have a logo or graphic
of your own, you may wish to add it somewhere in this frame to increase the
identification and 'branding' with own site. The logo should have a smaller height than
the specifed depth of this frameset, on page 2 (yourframe.html). Even if you make the
'marginheight="0", you will still need the height of the graphic to be smaller than
the frameset row size. Experiment for best setup. In the example below, the frameset
row size is currently set to 40 pixels, but can be increased, or changed
to a percentage.
If you want to position elements accurately in this top frame, you may
wish to use tables.
The second page (yourframe.html) is the one which loads the KidsRanch into its main window,
and 'topbar.html' as a small narrow top frame. Name the file whatever you like.
See what it looks like for Tony's site at http://www.web-evangelism.com/frameforguide.html
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page 1. topbar.html Paste this coding:
Back to contents page
Your site name or appropriate title
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page2. yourframe.html Paste this coding:
Appropriate title here
<![CDATA[
<H3>KidsRanch - fun and encouragement for kids</H3>
Sorry, your browser does not seem able to use 'frames'.
<A HREF="http://www.kidsranch.org/" target="_blank">Click here to visit the KidsRanch</A>.
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NOTES
1. If you wish to link to a specific page within the KidsRanch,
change the FRAME NAME="contents" link to the appropriate URL.
(Or to any other site you wish to link to this way.)
2. If you do use this frame linking, please tell us: pokey@theranch.org
It will be nice to see how it works out in practice.
3. If you place text and a back link within the noframes tag, people who use
a browser which cannot handle frames (yes, there still are some in use) will
be able to find the site.
5. Search engines may list the page if you put some additional text about
the page within the noframes tags, plus a meaningful title within the
tags, and create an enticing <meta descrition> tag.
6. The KidsRanch is very happy to be linked to in this way. I believe it is a valuable
way of linking to evangelistic resources in a more integrated coherent way than
normal links.