Operation Manual

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A great way of always showing the same page (e.g. showing a product list)
within every page in your site is to apply a frame to the site's master page.
Taking the idea further, you can add selection buttons (or menu options) in
support of the frame to change what the frame displays (according to the
currently selected option).
If each button links to a different page (but always to the same frame) you can
make your framed documents contents change with button contents—this
takes advantage of the automatically generated HTML ID (see p.
171) which
should be referenced as the Target Frame name in each button's hyperlink.
If adding a frame to a master page ensure that the frame's destination page
does not use that same master page (this avoids an unwanted page-in-page
effect).
Frames are applied via the Framed Document Tool. The term "Framed
Document" is used in WebPlus to keep the concept of Iframes distinct from
that of HTML or Creative text frames (used for controlling the placement of
text on the page)—both very different features within WebPlus.
Frames are fully supported in all the latest Internet browsers.