| threelefts 2006-05-09, 9:35 am |
| Ok I'm building a site and my boss sent me an email that I don't quite understand. This is the jist of it...
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The way we plan to make this work eventually is that once the main page is done, we'll simply load in different content templates each time a link is clicked in the menu or on the page. For example, if the page is homepage.cfm, and a link on the menu is to "products", then instead of loading a new page called products.cfm with the menu header and footer loaded on the page, we'll reload homepage.cfm and pass in the reference to the products link so that the page knows to load details from that page into the right side of the page. Sort of like using frames or even inline frames but better. So the link would be homepage.cfm?link=products.cfm. Homepage would reload and in the homepage we would include whatever parameter is included in the URL. In this case, since products.cfm is referenced, that page would be included within homepage.cfm and the content would be displayed wherever we needed it to.
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This is new to me... so basically, what topics should I be researching to better understand how to build the site this way. Any links or keywords to search on would be greatly appreciated... thanks!!! |