Please Help with This--

[GaryA]

I just had our company identity redesigned and I'm having trouble coding one element of our new website. If I could get it to work it would be great, but I'm afraid I'm over my head on this. It's probably a basic code, but coding is not at all my strength, any help would be so greatly appreciated!

So, I need to set up many images (in a table or frame?) on a page so that a nav bar on the left will stay in place while the viewer can scroll vertically through a series of images. If they click on an image it would link to a detail of that image in another scroll on our giftshop page.

1. Is it possible to do this, to link an image say halfway down one scroll to another image halfway down another scroll?
2. Are frames or CSS the way to best do this?
3. If this is difficult, can someone refer me to a person who could set up a few pages for me if it's even possible? I'm at the end of my rope on this!!!
4. What would be the best way to duplicate the simple and unobtrusive scroll in the example?

Here is a link to our old site where I've uploaded two jpegs of what I'm talking about:

http://www.dfastudios.com/newsite/

Clicking on an image in the "Southwest" page would take you to that image on the "Detail" page


Thanks again for any help. Have a safe and happy holiday!

With much gratitude,
Gary

[Dale Ward]

Hey, Gary!

It sounds like you need CSS for this. Check my site (http://www.thelogbookof.ws/) to see if it's something like what you're trying to do.

Bear in mind that I'm not a web development professional... in fact, I had to get a lot of help from a friend to get this site to look even this good. However, the coding is sound and you may find it useful. If so, let me know and I'll be happy to send you copies of my style sheets. You won't be able to use them straight out of the box, but you're welcome to use them as starter material.

[Matt]

Gary, flash would give you this capability, along with some nice fading/ scrolling effects if that's what you wanted. That's what comes to mind based upon the sample images you uploaded and I bet you could find a nice off-the-shelf solution.

Although it's difficult to understand what exactly you have in mind based upon the two sample images, you could alternatively try a combination of frames, hyperlinks, and anchor tags.

-Matt

[jack]

CSS is definitely the way to go for things like a fixed sidebar with scrolling content, etc. See the site I did for my Daughter's business - http://www.truckeepaperparadise.com/ - it has a fixed heading and side panel with scrolling contents.

There are a number of books on CSS, but I learned much more from Stu Nicholl's site on the subject - http://www.cssplay.co.uk/ - he has examples, source code, tutorials, and links to spend days on. Check out his example layouts, and don't miss the famous "Holy Grill" at http://www.cssplay.co.uk/layouts/frame.html !!!

Good luck,
Jack A.