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This is your index.html page. For your education, we have set it up as a demonstration. Unless you are the one in a billion people who are presenting a comparative study of the alligator and crocodile, you will want to change it. But it is fully functional, in its own way, so we suggest you copy it before changing so you can refer to it.
Your single source
At the appropriate place, the step-by-step explains how we have accomplished what we are going to only briefly detail now. After you have experimented here, which should take only about 5 minutes, select your single source
If you entered thru your domain name, you should be reading this in the rightmost frame of your display. If you didn't enter thru your domain name, please close your browser and do enter thru your domain name. In this way not only will you be able to follow closely what we have written, but it will also serve as a verification that we have set up you domain properly. You only need to do this once. As you read and follow this demonstration, this page will appear again elsewhere and then just leave it where it is and don't re-enter. That would cause confusion. It won't confuse the website, but it might confuse you as you are reading along.
Now that you have entered thru your domain name this page should be displayed in the rightmost frame of your display, and the configuration of frames you see is the result of the default frameset plus aspects of the single page request for this page index.html. The alligator and crocodile pages to your left are the result of the single page request. All else is the result of the default frameset specifications.
For example, notice the logo frame/window at the top left proudly displaying the
To the right of these logos is the administration frame/window with the volcano. And there are other frames/windows. They are all part of the default frameset. Whereas, to re-iterate, the the alligator and crocodile pages to your left are the result of the single page request.
In other words, when you entered thru your domain name we set it up as though the single page index.html had been requested from, say, a search engine. And we wanted for this demo to also load the alligator and crocodile menu pages.
This index.html page is also available from the default user control panel > menu. But don't click that yet. When you do the configuration frames will be the dynamic common group.
The dynamic common group is the result of the default frameset plus common aspects of the dynamic context for this page index.html. In that configuration (only because we want it to), this index.html appears in the second frame from the left called the primary frame and only the alligator menu page appears to its right in the secondaty frame, and to its right, the main content frame is blanked out, which is where this index.html page originally appears.
Finally, if you mouseover on either of the two links on this page at the bottom where the demo begins (don't do it yet.), the dynamic specific group is activated for the individual link.
The dynamic specific group is the result of the default frameset plus specific aspects of the dynamic context for this page index.html. And in that case (again, only because we want it to), regardless of whether the you click/mouseover the alligator/crocodile menu selection when this index.html page is on the right or when this index.html page is on the left, then the following events occur. First, this index.html page is reloaded into the primary frame and second, either the alligator or crocodile menu page appears in the secondary frame (as appropriate depending upon which you clicked).
But there is more. This autoloading can be propagated. We've set the alligator menu to not propagate, and the crocodile menu to propagate. Before we explain, please reread the previous paragraph. You should see that in each situation this index.html appears in the primary frame, where the alligator menu first appears, and the alligator or crocodile menu is moved to the secondaty frame, even though in the crocodile scenario, the crocodile menu is already in the secondary frame.
Now to explain the propagation. There is a difference in the action of the alligator menu vs. the crocodile menu. Here's the difference. To get the alligator picture to appear in the content frame which is the rightmost frame where this index.html originally appears when you log on, you must click the link in the alligator menu. There is no mystery there. But when you click the crocodile menu from this index.html, and it moves over to it's right, it will automatically load it's picture into the content frame (which again is the largest and rightmost frame).
So you see that when the crocodile menu was initially loaded it did not load its picture. That is because in the single page request context it is not supposed to (for this demo). But when the crocodile menu is loaded from this index.html page, then it does load its picture (because we wanted it to). That is because the loading of a menu from a link at your website is a dynamic specific context, and it's dynamic specific context attributes are enabled. The dynamic specific context attributes are enabled also for the alligator, but we gave it none to enable. Only the crocodile.
Now, nothing we just explained is fixed or set in stone. You don't have to do what we just did. This is just a demo. Each and every aspect is optional and under your complete control and manipulability. If you don't need this capability, just ignore it and create your web site accordingly. But the power lies in the fact that these combinations of pages can be predefined and loaded with a single click, or mouseover!
These three contexts or scenarios are in an order as follows:
Single Page Request
Dynamic Common
Dynamic Specific
NOW read the following instructions in their entirety before you follow them because one or more of these steps will replace this page if it is in the right most content frame.
* mouseover on each of the two links below
alligator first, but don't click within the alligator menu this first time
then crocodile,
and see what happens.
* Then (even though you won't have to, because this index.html page will appear on the left), select this index.html page from the default user control panel > menu, and see what happens.
* Then experiment on your own using the alligator or crocodile links in the index.html page that has appeared in the left most frame.
* You can restore this index.html page to the right most frame by clicking on
in your default user control panel above.
Although you would normally not use all these techniques for these simple pages, this demonstration shows how you can have groups of pages appear with a single click or mouseover. Notice also that the mouseover is only active when this main index.html page is in the right most (content frame). It is programably set that way because we wanted to show how convenient a mouseover can be, but it is actually inconvenient in the left most, narrow, frame, so we turned it back off.
After you are done experimenting, select your single source
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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE Alligator and Crocodile
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