Experiments with Iframes
The idea, here, is to "syndicate" pages from other web sites - like BCA and Darkness
Below - to provide attractive content for BCRA; and for BCRA to rely on these external sites to
provide appropriate up-to-date content. This could be content related to the sites themselves or
BCRA-related content on forthcoming events.
There are different ways of writing multi-column text, e.g. using inline blocks,
tiles, or CSS-columns. I tend to use a mix of all three, but this iframes demo uses
the CSS column property to put the content into "up to five columns of minimum width
350px". I might have to adopt a different method, though, because columns makes the
tiles read "down then across" whereas a better way to organise it might be "across then down".
This is also true on BCRA's home page, which means an overhaul so that the tiles are all the same
size.
See what happens as you make your screen narrower.
PROBLEMS: As you can see, some web sites work better than others - those cookie
permission boxes need to go! The pages need to be designed not to require horizontal scrolling.
Notice that the Cave Science Centre page doesnt work well (I expect it is specified to have a
fixed width). Some pages load slowly - another point to address.
You can view the PHP code that sets up the
data arrays, which control the display of the tiles.
