I am building an online directory which requires me to have a ton of external
links pointing away from my site. I know that many people (including myself)
are easily annoyed by new windows loading, so I want to avoid that. However, my
hope is to make it easier for my visitors to return to my site once they have
"wandered" a bit.

To solve the issue I would like to develop the site to where when someone
clicks on a link, it will open to that site... but will have a very thin frame
at the top with our logo and a "return to" link. This would be similar to when
you do a Google image search, click on an image and have the banner at the top
that allows you to return to the search, turn off the header, etc.

Does anyone know how this would be designed best? I'm sure it is fairly
simple, and I know that I am probably making it a lot more complicated than it
should be...

And... I am open to other suggestions if you have better ideas.

Use frames. However, some sites will block your attempt to "frame" them.

The outgoing links would all point to your frameset, with the actual domain
carried in a URL variable, e.g.,

<a href="yourframesetpage.php?link=example.com"...

Then the frameset would parse that variable, e.g.,

<?php

$url = (isset($_GET['link'])?$_GET['link']:FALSE);

?>

and use it in the frameset definition, e.g.,

<frame src="<?php echo ($url?$url:'somedummypage.html'); ?>"....

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"ArtsyAndi" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I am building an online directory which requires me to have a ton of
>external
> links pointing away from my site. I know that many people (including
> myself)
> are easily annoyed by new windows loading, so I want to avoid that.
> However, my
> hope is to make it easier for my visitors to return to my site once they
> have
> "wandered" a bit.
>
> To solve the issue I would like to develop the site to where when someone
> clicks on a link, it will open to that site... but will have a very thin
> frame
> at the top with our logo and a "return to" link. This would be similar to
> when
> you do a Google image search, click on an image and have the banner at the
> top
> that allows you to return to the search, turn off the header, etc.
>
> Does anyone know how this would be designed best? I'm sure it is fairly
> simple, and I know that I am probably making it a lot more complicated
> than it
> should be...
>
> And... I am open to other suggestions if you have better ideas.
>