Creating Framed Forums

In order to create a framed forum, like http://www.vestris.com/tech/split.html several simple steps are required.

Create an html document on your server, called, for example, split.html. It does not have to be cached on the aGNeS server, nor does it require any intervention from the server administrator. It can be of course placed at any location, such as the same as your template pages.

This document should have a frameset defined like below:
<html> <head> <title>aGNeS News Forum</title> </head> <frameset COLS="50%,*"> <frame src="your forum url" SCROLLING="none" WIDTH="0" FRAMESPACING="0" NAME="_left" BORDER="0"> <frame src="any page you want to appear on the right side" MARGINWIDTH="0" MARGINHEIGHT="0" SCROLLING="none" WIDTH="0" FRAMESPACING="0" NAME="_right" BORDER="0" > </frameset> </html>

Note

Note that you must change your forum url by the full location of your bbs, such as http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/bar/agnes?FooAgnes+FooAgnesHTML . You should also create a second page, which will appear by default on the right side of your frameset.

Add the following lines:
 

to all aGNeS template pages and update the cache.

You can use your split.html page to navigate to the aGNeS bbs.

For a good framed forum example, check out the Infomaniak PuGiLaT and look at the sources of split.html , header.html , article.html , postnew.html , follow.html , preview.html and search.html .