iframes?

[ice77ice]

I'm a semi-newbie to web design. Been doing it for awhile but have been leaning on the Dreamweaver crutch the whole time. :)

I need some advice about a site I'm designing for my band. We have a regular site, but this one will be specifically for our new album, with just album-related info on it. Check out this rough template:

http://www.familygrooveco.com/bg.jpg

I think I want some sort of frames set-up where the outer border (including header and bottom text links) stays static, and the content changes in the middle when the text links are clicked - a frames sort of thing. However, I want the page to be small (600x400) and to have a border around the whole thing (as is in the above picture), but I could not seem to get this effect with frames in Dreamweaver.

I've come across "iframes" in trying to figure this out, though I'm not quite sure what they are or how to use them. Does anyone know if iframes would be a good solution for my desired outcome? I'm sure I can dig up some tutorials on iframes, so my main question is whether iframes are an appropriate tool for what I want to do.

Any help would certainly be most appreciated!

[Samsoske]

Maybe one of these sites would Help?

cmg02 (http://www.cmg02.com/cg2/iframe.htm)

htmlbasix (http://www.htmlbasix.com/iframe.shtml)

gotfusion (http://www.gotfusion.com/tutsdl/iframe_gen.cfm)

If not, oh well, just trying to help.

[Pixelcode]

Iframes are the solution because they have a static size and can have different documents loaded in them. To do this give the iframe a name and in the link give the target attribute the name of the iframe.
e.g.

<a href="" target="iframe"></a>
<iframe name="iframe"></iframe>
http://www.pixelcode.co.uk/html/tutorials/4-Iframes.html

:)