hey, i was wondering what i need to get my navigation bar in a seperate frame or whatever so that when you click on a link and the page content reloads the navigation dosnt have to??

you got it a bit backwards.
create a page.
put the navigation on it.
put an iframe on it.
content will be in the iframe area and will change when you click on your navigation.


normal frames...
http://www.lissaexplains.com/frames.shtml

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

ah i see, so they i-fram will reload and the page wont? will try it now thanks alot!

I think in fact, the problem is that you're not telling it to load the page in the frame (or iframe as it might now be).

If you're using an iframe, make sure you name the iframe, like this:

<iframe name="MyIframe" url="mypage.html"></iframe>

Then, from outside the iframe, you can make pages load in the iframe like this:

<a href="anotherpage.html" target="MyIframe">Another Page</a>

It works with a standard frameset, too.