I want the design to look exactly like the old even though it’s ugly and uses frames:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Untitled Document</TITLE>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET rows="70,1*" cols="*" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0">
<FRAMESET cols="660,*" rows="*">
<FRAME src="top.html" frameborder="NO" scrolling="NO" name="top">
<FRAME src="blank.html" scrolling="NO">
</FRAMESET>
<FRAMESET cols="159,*" rows="*" border="0" framespacing="0">
<FRAMESET rows="580,*">
<FRAME src="left.html" name="left" frameborder="NO" scrolling="NO">
<FRAME src="blank.html" scrolling="NO">
</FRAMESET>
<FRAMESET cols="640,*" border="0" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO">
<FRAME src="front.html" frameborder="NO" scrolling="AUTO" name="front">
<FRAME src="blank.html" name="" scrolling="NO" frameborder="NO">
</FRAMESET>
</FRAMESET>
</FRAMESET>
<NOFRAMES><BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
</BODY></NOFRAMES>
</HTML>
So question is not how to redesign but how to keep the layout intact while adding editability to pages. I thought that migrating to wordpress could be a good solution but I found I had to migrate a frames site to just a CSS with wordpress which might be doable with the right template or if I make my own template. The CSS I could start for wordpress is
body {
background-image:url('http://www.eddaconsult.se/top_files/top.gif');
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:left top;
}
#page {
background-image:url('http://www.eddaconsult.se/left_files/left.gif');
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:left top;
}
And of course the components don’t align like they should since my CSS knowledge is too limited. This is how it looks with my CSS and wordpress:
Here’s the original version of the site where you had to use FTP and manually edit static HTML (the screenshot is a copy of the site I moved to appspot and we are also evaluating appspot as a provider for this project):
So the goal is very clear and if I can achieve it with wordpress I think it will be better than appspot since the user (a management consultant) doesn’t want a new design and doesn’t want new hosting, just a more convenient way than FTP and HTML to update the pages and therefore I thought of wordpress. Can you help me align the componenets with CSS or make me some other recommendation? The link to the original site is here and it’s OK to keep very old design like no CSS and frames as solution even though I should update the pages to use CSS anyhow what’s important is the “blog function” that there is some wysiwyg editor for the pages that should be editable.
I’ve also deployed a third prototype test via coderbuddy-com but that’s not ideal since the solution depends on coderbuddy.com
Do you think wordpress is the best choice for this project? If so, must we make our own template with a template making program such as Artisteer or can we make it with common templates + custom CSS that I bought?
The original site is eddaconsult.se and my prototype building is eddaconsult.com
Any other thoughts/comments/recommendations/answer related to this?
Thank you in advance
since this site is so small and simple, I would recommend converting the frames to standard html/css and using a third party CMS like pagelime or CushyCMS. this would take the least amount of time for converting this ancient looking site.