I'm making a webpage and I can't decide the best way to make it. See I first tried to make it with tables, that turned out fine for the index page. The problem was that the site has a ton of links in the menu. I didn't like this because if I need to change a link in the future, I'd have to go through all the pages and do that. So I thought php perhaps would help me with this problem but I'm php illeterate, I'm not even sure if that's what it is supposed to do. Well I decided the next easiest thing to try would be frames. I want the menu to look as if it was in a table, now there is a problem though. Since the menu is so long, and I don't want scrollbars it's not all visible on the index page. It gets cut off at around half of it or something like that. Is there a way that I can keep the frames, have it not scroll on inbetween my menu and my frame which will hold the text? If I'm not clear here as to what my problem is I can try uploading what I have to illustrate the problem. Well any help on how to fix this, or how to make the site with a format that makes it easy to update links is much appreciated.

SSI includes (http://www.lissaexplains.com/html6.shtml#SSI)
PHP includes (http://www.lissaexplains.com/html6.shtml#php)

If you find that there are too many links, perhaps you could try using dropdown menus?

scrolling="no" - frame won't scroll
scrolling="auto" - frame will only scroll when necessary

Okay I read the SSI page, and I think I get it but I have a few more questions. With SSI and if I go with the table layout instead of the frames layout how do I include the SSI on in the table that makes up my menu? @_@. I got from Lissa's explanation of SSI, that it doesn't have to only be with frames, am I right?

Here is my code for the table layout, I took out the links blah, but you get the gist. Woah the code was stretching out the forum so I decided to upload it.

http://www.tears-in-heaven.net/layouts/tablelayout.html

the php includes are not that hard to understand and if you had to choose between frames and that, go with the php includes.

Using PHP to generate your page is probably the fastest method. I'd recommend using PHP over a frame alternative any day of the week. There's plenty of tutorials about includes over the net. Just be way you don't start picking up bad coding techniques early on, it'll just make it harder to give them up.