From: Wendy Seegar
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:33 AM
To: 'Dreamweaver Talk'
Subject: RE: dropdown menus and frames - 05/30/02


Dear experts

I am a beginner with Dreamweaver/layers/behaviours etc, although I am quite
comfortable with html hand coding. However, using Dreamweaver 4, I have
been asked to redesign the company website, using frames (just one for the
top navigation) and dropdown/flyout menus a la PVII. So, I bought
Dreamweaver Magic and began merrily building the menus, which will drop down
from the navigation bar in the top horizontal frame.
As I was nearing completion, I began to wonder how the layers and menus
would work dropping down over the body page from the top frame. So I tried
it out, and lo and behold, it doesn't work at all. The top frame looks
fine, but the dropdown menus are hidden behind the body page, and the links
all open in the top frame.
Is there a way to make it work, or do I need to make the top
frame/navigation into a library item and just add it to each page via the
template, therefore not having frames? How do I do that?

This the top frame with the navigation

http:////www.photonics.uk.com/download/frames/top.htm

and this is how it is in the frames

http:////www.photonics.uk.com/download/frames/PPLframeset.htm

The links don't work at the moment.

I would be very grateful for your help, as I know I have probably made some
fundamental mistake, but I can't see anything in the book that covers this
problem. If you have any criticisms of my design, I would also be
interested in your comments.


Wendy Seegar
Photonic Products Ltd
Tel: +44 (0) 1279 719190
Email: wendy@photonics.uk.com
WWW: http:////www.photonics.uk.com