[hankhill_]

ive been looking around for a very basic html templates, with a navigation bar on the left side, and just an open right side for a pic or similar...

kinda of around 20% nav bar, and; of course, 80% rest...
not looking for frame-like-thing, cause im using free webhost with banners

thanks for any replies =)

[AbvAvgUser]

You can make a table. Width of the table as 100%. Create two columns. First colum width at 20%, another one with 80%. Pretty simple. Tables usually substitute frames beautifully.

[coachdan32]

If you want the nav bar on all pages, you could make it an include file and add it to all pages. Then you only have to build it once and only have to change it in one spot when you make changes.

[Rockn]

The table thing is the easiest way for you to handle this setup. I do not believe that you can use include files in plain jane HTML.

[AbvAvgUser]

Usually, all the scripts and CSS files are used as references, instead of a direct dump of codes at multiple places. This is the what is used:
<LINK REL=STYLESHEET TYPE="text/css" HREF="StyleSheet.css">

But have never tried using a .htm file like this. Theoratically, it should work. But needs to be tried in different browsers first. I have never persoanlly tried this. If it works, it is a good solution for the problem at hand here.

[brendandonhu]

Originally Posted by AbvAvgUser

Usually, all the scripts and CSS files are used as references, instead of a direct dump of codes at multiple places. This is the what is used:
<LINK REL=STYLESHEET TYPE="text/css" HREF="StyleSheet.css">

But have never tried using a .htm file like this. Theoratically, it should work. But needs to be tried in different browsers first. I have never persoanlly tried this. If it works, it is a good solution for the problem at hand here.

No, you can't use a LINK element to include a file. To include a file in HTML, you use frames. Or a serverside language like PHP, Perl, SSI, etc.

[AbvAvgUser]

There you go!! brendandonhu has taken away all incentive from me to go thru some trial and error routine .

Well, I will still try and see. But now I am not too hopeful that it will work and leave it rather quickly if it doesn't