Problem linking to brochure page from outside the site

[NickD]

When you link to a brochure page from outside the site, it seems that one is first transported to the brochure page requested, but without the navigation bar with the buttons to the various brochure pages being displayed. Then one is taken to the site homepage, where one waits a couple of seconds, and then back to the desired brochure page which is now shown correctly, replete with brochure link buttons.

The URL shown in the browser is also different to the one requested. For example, when trying to link to:-

http://www.nickdobsonwines.co.uk/aca...formation.html

by the time one finally arrives, the browser reports the URL as

http://www.nickdobsonwines.co.uk/ind...l&BrochureBody

which is a bit different.

It seems at this point to have got its knickers in a twist, and these long URLs seem to then persist until you link back to the shop, then out to the homepage. Then it's OK again.

If you navigate to the desired page from the homepage using the standard brochure button then the URL is shown as

http://www.nickdobsonwines.co.uk/index.html

which is the same for all brochure pages.


So my question is - is there a clean way of linking to brochure pages without the symptoms reported above appearing?

Thanks in advance

Nick

[cdicken]

Whenever you link to a page that should appear within a frame, Actinic detects this via some javascript and so loads the frame set.

The default page that appears within the frameset is 'acatalog/brochurebody.html' so this page gets loaded first.

Actinic then realises it has loaded the wrong page, so it then reloads the correct one.

The way around this is to link directly to the frameset, and pass a variable to it of the page you want loaded. This is what the following URL does:

http://www.nickdobsonwines.co.uk/index.html?http%3A//www.nickdobsonwines.co.uk/acatalog/Austrian_Wine_Information.html&BrochureBody

[NickD]

Thanks Chris, I'll give that a go.

Regards

Nick

[NickD]

Chris

I tried your suggestion, and now what happens is that it goes first to the home page and then to the target page. The difference is that it doesn't now go FIRST to the target page.

Is there a way of directing it to the target page directly, without going via the home page?


regards

Nick

[cdicken]

Hi there. I'm afraid that I cannot see a way of stopping this. My only suggestion is to create a selection of frameset pages to link to...

e.g. http://www.nickdobsonwines.co.uk/frame_austria.html

...with each one loading the correct page first time.