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[impos]

Hi again Jo,

The reason it is 4 sites is because they are all from different suppliers with different products to offer, and they all work the same way.

Although the sites do actually have prices, they have to come to me for contact details and further information and avaliability and I then send them the information they request.

Andrew

[jont]

Do you want to have 1 website as a portal for the 4 sites ... so each site is accessible from the one surrounding links whilst retaining the navigation at the top etc?

If so you are about 10 years behind as this will require the use of frames which is a nightmare from an SEO and a usability point of view. You will not be able to retain the top navigation as you have 4 different sites - so it wont (unless you have some very heavy duty scripting involved) know which actinic site is which. You could get into all sorts of difficulties due to the referring sites URL, cookies etc. Frames are a nightmare to navigate and are easily broken by users browser settings.

If you really want to do what you are trying to achieve this is a task best suited to simple HTML site and not Actinic. You don't need the cart functions or in fact any of the specialist functionality as provided by Actinic but a simple 3 frame site with the _main content area linking through to your suppliers 4 sites.

As I and Bill and Jo have all mentioned keeping them on your site is going to be nigh on impossible - you either have to live with this or go the hard slog and create your own site from scratch - maybe your suppliers can provide your with either databases or spreadsheets to create your own site very quickly

[completerookie]

I know this is a daft idea, but why not create a "different look and feel" to different pages,
example
- all the "shoe pages" have a blue background
- all the "trouser pages" have a redbackground
- all the "shirt pages" have a greenbackground

within Actinic, all pages are customisable, so why not put a different look and feel on the different pages, ie give the impression they are different in some way.

surely if you go the way of four separate site, you theoretically need four separate actinic licences ??

kev

[gabrielcrowe]

i know personally, i'v probably done this myself, since i'm such an awkward bugger, but impos, why dont you believe jont and jo? they are absolutely right with their responses and their help.

dont use frames, suicide.
dont use iframes, suicide.
dont eat yellow snow, suicide.

however, whatever it is you sell, i have mercy on its plastic/fabric/glass/metal soul

make a new brochure fragment, with 'just text' template, put this in it:

!!<<iframe width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" src="http://www.google.com"></iframe>>!!

good luck.