Richard,
This way to the finding aid:
http://images.lib.ohio-state.edu/cga/Mendez/SPEC.CGA.TMf.html
And, for what it's worth, the XSLT:
http://images.lib.ohio-state.edu/cga/Mendez/mendez_frames.xsl
Many thanks to everyone who posted advice! I'll be looking at all
the suggestions and figuring out what I might do.
Amy
At 03:17 PM 2/21/2006, you wrote:
>Amy McCrory wrote:
>
>>Here's the problem: an open Web search of key terms from the
>>finding aid lands the searcher on a page such as SPEC.CGA.TMb.html
>>or SPEC.CGA.TMseries2.html, and the page in question appears
>>without the frameset. This means that many of the finding aid's
>>navigation links are lost.
>>Is there a better way of coding the HTML, so that the frameset
>>always appears with any of the pages?
>
>Hi Amy
>
>A little Javascript is commonly used to check if a page is within a
>frameset, and redirect if not, e.g.:
>
><body onload="if (top == self) self.location.href = 'SPEC.CGA.TMf.html';" >
>
>But this will only then load the frameset in its initial state, not
>with any particular finding aid showing.
>
>It'd be nice to see a URL and see what exactly you've done and
>whether it could be made to work as you suggest. However, my
>instinct is that I probably wouldn't start from here.
>
>Why not instead embed the TOC within the Finding Aids, and generate
>a single, self-contained page each time, with a unique URL, rather
>than a frameset? Use <div>s and CSS to achieve the same layout as
>your frameset.
>
>HTH
>
>Richard
>
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