While it's not exactly PHP-related, I know of a lot of sites out there that would love to know about this, so I thought I'd share. Over on WebReference.com today, they have a new article about creating that 'frames' look on your site without having to resort to "those".

By far the most sought after use of CSS is to emulate the dated html 'frame' layout, whereby the header, navigation and footer stay on screen at all times and the content area will scroll. Since the adoption of the fixed position style by the latest browsers this is quite an easy task for CSS. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer hasn't introduced this style into it's repertoire (perhaps IE7 will correct this deficiency when it's released later this year).

Fortunately, there are ways around this and it's possible to make Internet Explorer versions IE5.01, 5.5 and 6 fall into line with the rest.

The following article will detail how to set up a 'frame' style layout with a fixed header, which can incorporate the navigation, a fixed footer and a scrolling content area, all of which will resize down to virtually nothing and still be usable (with scroll bars added as required). It has been tested on PC browsers Mozilla 1.7.5, Netscape 7.1, FireFox 1.0.3, Opera 8, Internet Explorer IE5.01, IE5.5 and IE6 and also Mac browsers Safari (1.3) and FireFox (1.0.3).

Personally, I've only looked into this kind of layout once, but I've had several mention to me that they've looked for it. So, for all of those out there - here you go...