This is a technique which many people won't want to do because it is usually a good idea for web pages in a web site to have the same structure. However there may be times when you would really like different templates for your different tools e.g. for the page that wraps around your forum boards to be different to the page that wraps around your survey. You can achieve this by using framesets. More specifically, you can specify a different frameset for each tool. Below we show how different templates for different tools can be achieved by using framesets:

Creating a survey template

We have created the template for the survey shown below using a frameset:

The above frameset is achieved with the following code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>SURVEYS</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET rows="150,*" border=0 frameborder="0" frameborder="no" framespacing=0>
<FRAME src="/surveytop.html">
<FRAMESET cols="150,*" border=0 frameborder="0" frameborder="no" framespacing=0>
<FRAME src="/leftmenu.html">
<FRAME src="http://www.poppydog.com/survey.do?tiid=...">
</FRAMESET>
</FRAMESET>
<NOFRAMES></NOFRAMES>
</HTML>

If the frameset is saved as /survey.html, , then the URL for the survey is http://www.yourwebsite.com/survey.html (instead of the URL we give you which is http://www.poppydog.com/survey.do?tiid=...)

Creating a forum template

Again we have created the template for the forums shown below using a frameset. Notice how the web page that wraps around the forums is slightly different to that which wraps around the survey shown above. The fact that we are using a frameset makes this possible, because we can simply use a different page in the top frame for the survey and the forum respectively.

The above frameset is achieved with the following code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>FORUM BOARDS</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET rows="150,*" border=0 frameborder="0" frameborder="no" framespacing=0>
<FRAME src="/forumtop.html">
<FRAMESET cols="150,*" border=0 frameborder="0" frameborder="no" framespacing=0>
<FRAME src="/leftmenu.html">
<FRAME src="http://www.poppydog.com/forum/boardMap.do?tiid=...">
</FRAMESET>
<NOFRAMES></NOFRAMES>
</HTML>

If the frameset is saved as /forums.html, , then the URL for the forums is http://www.yourwebsite.com/forums.html (instead of the URL we give you which is http://www.poppydog.com/forum/boardMap.do?tiid=...)

Related Help Pages

Making the tool web pages match your web site
- Creating a template for your tools