ok...I have seen on many sites were they will have a bar on the left that has links on it and a banner on the top with iframes or text...and when you click on the links on the the side the text in the center changes but the bar and banner doesn't and the address url stays the same? At first I thought it was a thing you could do only if you had your own domain name....but I have seen people do it on geocities and stuff...what do i do!? HELP!

If I had to guess they are using either iframes or frames.

http://www.lissaexplains.com/frames.shtml#inline
http://www.lissaexplains.com/frames.shtml

something like this:

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td valign="top" colspan="2">banner here</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">links here</td><td valign="top"><iframe height="#" width="#" frameborder="0" src="PAGEHERE.HTML" name="NAMEHERE"></iframe></td></tr></table>

explination:

src="PAGEHERE.HTML" means the page that opens INSIDE the iframe when the page is loaded. So change PAGEHERE.HTML to the url of the page you want to load into the iframe.

name="NAMEHERE" means the name of the iframe. You need to fill this in because of the links you want to open inside the iframe

now you go name your links like this:

<a href="URLHERE.html" target="NAMEHERE">linkname</a>

the NAMEHERE part should be the same as the NAMEHERE part in the iframe if you change it.

Love,
Mirna

That worked great! I just wanted to say I realy appriciate (sp?) your help in this...some of the stuff I would have never had known if you were not here! Anywho...I was wondering...that whole thing code works you made...but how do you make it where you have two columns on each side of the iframe and they are colorful? I thought this is a good example of what I am talking about. Dont worry I am not copying there idea I just thought it is a good example.

http://www.geocities.com/faeriez_dream/neoisle.html

thank you so much!

Hehe, stealing MaGiCSuN's code 'cause I'm too lazy to type up my own :P

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="3">banner here</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td valign="top" bgcolor="colour">
links here (left side)
</td>
<td valign="top" bgcolor="colour">
<iframe height="#" width="#" frameborder="0" src="PAGEHERE.HTML" name="NAMEHERE"></iframe>
</td>
<td valign="top" bgcolor="colour">
links here (right side)
</td>
</tr>

</table>

The colspan is now 3 because if you want to add one extra column, you have to add one to the colspan.