Frame Tamer Plugin - (add framesets and iFrames to your site)
The Frame Tamer plugin is designed to make it easy for you to add and
work with frames on your soholaunch site. The plugin handles two
different tasks.
1) Create frameset pages that consist of a header frame and a content frame.
Simple header frame content can be generated by the plugin (Title,
background color and close window link) or you can reference a url to
your own header page. Whichever method you choose, the selected header
will appear in the top frame of all of the frameset pages that you
create.
The content frame (main frame) is easily specified within the plugin control panel for each frameset page you create.
Each frameset page that you create will therefore include your branding
and custom content in the top frame and any url of your choice in the
bottom frame. There are many uses for html framesets but they are often
used to link to content from another location or website while keeping
your own branding and navigation at the top of the screen making it
easy for users to return to your main website.
Each frameset that is created within the plugin results in a static
.html file with a short url making it easy to link to. The frameset
files are placed directly in your document root directory so to link to
a frameset name frame.html you would just need the url
domain.com/frame.html
See a simple example of an HTML frameset created with the frame tamer plugin here: Buy Soholaunch Plugins
2) Create iFrames that can automatically resize to the available dimensions of the visitors browser
iFrames provide an easy way to embed content from other pages within
the body of another. This is very often used to embed content from 3rd
party sites or content hosted in another location.
One problem with iframes is that when the height of the iframe exceeds
the height of the browser window, two scroll bars open up. One on the
iframe itself and one on the browser. This can make page navigation
frustrating. You can choose to use "short" iframes so that users with
smaller browser windows don't run into this problem but then users with
larger screens will be frustrated by the small iframe window provided.
The Frame Tamer helps to get around this problem by auto-sizing the
iframe to whatever height and width is available on the users screen.
Note that this is dependent on your template and the iframe will
generally resize to at least the height of the tallest content within
your template. There is a height adjustment parameter within the plugin
that is designed to compensate for various heights of template headers
and footers.
Adding an iframe to a page is as simple as dragging the iframe object
to the page within the page editor and typing the url to the content
you'd like to appear in the iframe. You can choose to set a fixed
height and width or use the global settings with the autosize
functionality.
See an example of an auto sizing iFrame here: Google in an iFrame
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