Frames Area #3

This Independent Area Reserved
For CE Delivery By CE Server

This page is designed to provide a quick and simple orientation on frames technology and why it is important to CE Server.

• In general, frames allow a single browser window to be divided into any number of areas. We have divided this sample window into three separate and distinct areas.
• Each such area in a browser window is actually a different Web page.
• Each Web page may come from the same or a different server as the other Web pages displayed in the other areas.
• As a result, each area is completely independent of every other area. Dynamically changing content for one area can be obtained from an entirely different server than the other areas.
• The typical person operating the Web browser is unaware of that fact, and regards the entire window as coming from a single Web site.
• In a typical CE Server application, the window is divided into three areas as shown here.
• The top area (called Frames Area #1 in this window) is typically reserved to reflect the sponsoring site's branding information, style, and colors and comes from a Web page hosted by the sponsoring site.
• The left hand area (called Frames Area #2 in this window) is typically used to provide navigation links to CE Server functions and also reflects the sponsoring site's style and colors. It also comes from a Web page hosted by the sponsoring site.
• This area (called Frames Area #3 in this window) is "turned over" to CE Server itself to deliver actual CE content and functions via Web pages that come from our powerful Web server.

The net effect of this design is that each sponsoring site may host online CE seamlessly and transparently to its users. And best of all, a CE school's library may be deployed on a sponsoring site in a matter of hours!