Flash music player and frames

[Brand]

I'm helping fix up a site and there several problems with it. One of the problems to me is it's using frames. Now I see why the person did this in the first place it's because the site owner wants a flash music player to play throughout the whole site. And so it's in the top frame that never reloads so that when you go to a new page the music isn't constantly reloading. Is there some other why to get around this? With out having the frames?

[dudeking]

As far as I know only if its in a pop-up or 100% flash.

[Buzz]

It's got to either be a frame or a popup window. There must be something that remains open all the time. I suppose it could be done with server-side scripting and includes for content. That way you'd have one page that just loads different content. But if you aren't familiar with php or asp it would be a chore for you to do.

[oracle128]

You could use AJAX to switch page content, while leaving the player uninterrupted. Make sure you do the responsible thing and ensure the music player is really needed, before going out of your way to retain something that may be keeping potential visitors away.

[Brand]

You could use AJAX to switch page content, while leaving the player uninterrupted. Make sure you do the responsible thing and ensure the music player is really needed, before going out of your way to retain something that may be keeping potential visitors away.


While I agree with you, the site owner is rather determined to keep and snice it's for a company that throws parties I can kind of see it. But it was hard enough to convince him the ton of stuff flashing on the screen was way to much going on.

Thanks for the help guys, I'm not much of a scripter and since I'm alone on this project, this looks like it something that's going to have to say the way it is. I'll just have to help clean up photos and arranging things better on the site because it's a mess.