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[Baffled in Baltimore]

First, thank you for your patience and please forgive the lengthy blurb. This is a bit complicated, but I am sure there is a fix.

My website is heavily CSS structured for layout and styles for its Side-bar, heading, menu, etc. A modified CSS is used for the content and the content section is now an Iframe where all content is targeted. This was done to prevent duplication of parent. I am using GOOGLE site-map generator for the web and FreeFind for my site. Site consists of hundreds of HTML each consisting of an Image linked to a bigger image, Content, PayPal Links and other content all created with Excel for the code, Nvu for the file-saves and HTMLToolkit for the previews and error checking. When someone clicks an image anywhere on the site, it opens the HTML associated with it giving all the information about the Image. By the way, they are all table-based pages; DUMB, I know.

The Problem:
All these pages require updates or deletions depending on stock and pricing for any given item and frequent crawler checks for broken links afterwards. My site Spiders at roughly 500 pages and it keeps growing and getting out of hand. HELLLLLP!!!!

On a more personal note; the author of the website (that’s me) is loosing his vision and can no-longer keep-up with this maddening effort…

Proposed solution:
I believe that enclosing all images and their associated content in DIVS is the better way to go. The idea is to have all images along with its content on one HTML. There are different categories that would use their own pages but the goal is to remove those hundreds of HTML pages and replace them with maybe a couple of dozen Category pages instead. There are as few as 1 or 2 items to as many as 100 items for any given category that would be shown 1-at-a-time using PREV - NEXT links.

What I would like to accomplish is;

• Ensure cross-Browser Compatibility.
• All Category pages and selected DIVS target the content Iframe. (individually-set, CSS or Script file)
• Open the Catalog page of my site. It opens with the Category Menu in the Side-bar and maybe a promo page in the content Iframe.
• Select a category from the Side-bar; say Airplanes. Other categories might include Boats, Cars, Trains, etc.
• The selected “content-targeted” category page opens with a Thumbnail page of all Items on the Page. Each thumbnail is set to say; 150px, 4-wide. (In creating the Category pages, it would be simpler if the Thumbnails are on the same page or separate CSS for each Category.)
• An Image is selected, targeting the Content Iframe. The Image is now at say; 420px and displays all content along with it, including its Add to Cart Button.
• At the top of the page are Item and Category hyperlinks. The Item hyperlink opens on mouseover with ‘Prev–Next’, user selects. If Category hyperlink is selected, it returns current Category Thumbnail page for broader view of available selections.

When an item is no longer available, it is deleted from my data-base and the affected page amended to read “Item is no longer available”. This would be done by selecting appropriate “Item Status” in Excel for compilation of the page. If a deleted item is searched for, it will merely show this instead of a broken link associated with a missing webpage.

Whew!!! I told you it was complicated. Any assistance on setting this up (show 1 and hide the rest) is greatly appreciated.

CHEERS

This post has been edited by Baffled in Baltimore: Jan 9 2009, 05:56 PM