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Botaba Bed and Breakfast in Port Stephens
Botaba Bed and Breakfast has been an Online Bookings customer for many years. We’ve just helped them upgrade their website presence with a new website built on BurgundySky. This website incorporates a few new techniques using iframes.
An iframe is a way to have a web-page inside a web page. There are a couple of page types that open without the normal navigation features: Image Gallery, Map and Booking System. In their natural form, they open like a pop up. That works, but you lack some advantages such as being able to use Page Titles, add content useful for keywords and they just look better opened in the regular website.
- Image Gallery – Local Images
- Map of Port Stephens
- Availability and Rates
In order to create content that is linked in an iframe, you would first create the original page and save it to a ‘hidden catagory’. Then, create the page which will have the inserted iframe. You can write whatever is needed above or below the iframe. To insert the iframe, you must switch to code view and insert the following:
<div><iframe align=”center” src=”http://botababandb.com.au/gallery.php?galleryid=445″ width=”99%” scrolling=”no” height=”600″></iframe>
</div>
Change the src= to your targeted content and select the appropriate height. Save your page and see if it worked. If not, try resizing the original content or changing the size of the iframe.
By setting the width to equal a percentage rather than a fixed number, the frame will automatically size to fit the available space. As you change templates, your space changes as well – sometimes breaking the display of the frame. The height must always be a fixed number.
I personally don’t like iframes with content that doesn’t fit the space. In the code example above, I added scrolling=”no”. If the content was over-sized for the window, then scrolling = yes would allow the viewer to slide a bar from side to side or up and down to view all content.
Pages change with the template. So, if you change the theme of a website be sure to check all pages to see if they still look good.
Tags: B&B, Bed and Breakfast, Botaba, BurgundySky CMS, iframe, image gallery, Port Stephens