How to open page in frameset when page accessed

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I don’t know if this can be done, but I’m sure if someone would know, it would be one of you all!

If someone goes to one of my pages via a search engine direct link, they end up on the page (“contents”) without the rest of the site’s frameset. This looks bad and makes navigation sloppy. I have added a link at the bottom of each page to load the main index.htm with frameset, however I also am trying to improve the following:

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… added at the front to try to get this post-able
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… if (window.top==self) location.replace(“http://” + location.host);
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That script checks to see if the page is in a frameset, and if not, bounces the visitor to the main entrance to the site.

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The QUESTION:
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Can I also somehow specify that the main navigation frameset load, with the designated page in the mainFrame contents frame?

If you want to see what I’m trying to do, go to:

http://www.synergest.com/faq.htm

How can I get that page to reload itself into index.htm in the mainFrame contents frame? (I know I bungled the use of proper terms there, but hopefully you understand the gist of this…)

I have gotten

http://www.synergest.com/free-articles.htm

to bounce to the top/main/entrance of the website, but then the visitor would be lost (e.g. where did that page go that they wanted to see?).

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I think it’s the same trick as your photo section:

if (self.location == top.location) {
top.location = “http://www.synergest.com/frameset.html?” + self.location;
}

And in the frameset, substitute the search parameter into the file name (defaulting to or refreshing to the home page if the parameter is missing).

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That’s what I am stuck on. I figured it had to be a variation of the Photos thing I asked about earlier… (I’m learning… really! )

Within the index.htm:
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How to I substitute the variable for src=”home.htm” ?

Thanks again for your help!

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Take a look at the script in post 308115, and follow the same idea to document.write the second tag.

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Okay. I’m almost there. Take a look at http://www.synergest.com/free-articles2.htm

Notice the address bar. Something is over-compensating. The http://www.synergest.com/index-redo.htm has the modifications in it. One of them must be goofed up, obviously.

So that I don’t mess up my Karma any more than it is, asking for your help on this second issue, can you send me (private, of course) an email with a real email for you, so that I can send you an Amazon.com gift certificate? Seriously. I appreciate your help, and don’t want to be free-loading…

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Oh wow, that’s the best offer I’ve had in two years.

But let’s see if we can fix the page first. In the content page, I think I didn’t drill down enough when passing the URL. Try this:

if (self.location == top.location) {
top.location = “http://www.synergest.com/index-redo.htm?” + self.location.pathname;
}
[/list]That should give us the address relative to the domain. I guess this isn’t critical, but it will look neater.

Then in index-redo.htm, it appears that there’s an extra ” just before the word mainFrame:

document.write(“”);[/list]Does it help to delete that?

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Oh wow, that’s the best offer I’ve had in two years.

But let’s see if we can fix the page first. In the content page, I think I didn’t drill down enough when passing the URL. Try this:

if (self.location == top.location) {
top.location = “http://www.synergest.com/index-redo.htm?” + self.location.pathname;
}
[/list]That should give us the address relative to the domain. I guess this isn’t critical, but it will look neater.

Then in index-redo.htm, it appears that there’s an extra ” just before the word mainFrame:

document.write(“”);[/list]Does it help to delete that?

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Scratch that, IE doesn’t seem to like script embedded in a frameset, so we have to drive the whole thing with script:

…

document.write(“”);
document.write(“

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Huh. I think that worked. I think I’m also catching on to the document.write thingy. Oh, how a little knowledge can be dangerous…

Get thy email to me so I can get your Amazon cert to you. Or if you prefer something else, let me know. I’m serious! Thanks!!!

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Huh. I think that worked. I think I’m also catching on to the document.write thingy. Oh, how a little knowledge can be dangerous…

Get thy email to me so I can get your Amazon cert to you. Or if you prefer something else, let me know. I’m serious! Thanks!!!

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Scratch that, IE doesn’t seem to like script embedded in a frameset, so we have to drive the whole thing with script:

…

document.write(“”);
document.write(“

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Okay. I’m almost there. Take a look at http://www.synergest.com/free-articles2.htm

Notice the address bar. Something is over-compensating. The http://www.synergest.com/index-redo.htm has the modifications in it. One of them must be goofed up, obviously.

So that I don’t mess up my Karma any more than it is, asking for your help on this second issue, can you send me (private, of course) an email with a real email for you, so that I can send you an Amazon.com gift certificate? Seriously. I appreciate your help, and don’t want to be free-loading…

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Take a look at the script in post 308115, and follow the same idea to document.write the second tag.

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That’s what I am stuck on. I figured it had to be a variation of the Photos thing I asked about earlier… (I’m learning… really! )

Within the index.htm:
———————————
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
———————————

How to I substitute the variable for src=”home.htm” ?

Thanks again for your help!

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I think it’s the same trick as your photo section:

if (self.location == top.location) {
top.location = “http://www.synergest.com/frameset.html?” + self.location;
}

And in the frameset, substitute the search parameter into the file name (defaulting to or refreshing to the home page if the parameter is missing).

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