Add html menu to top left of outer frame?

Hi Again ~ My 6.14 Dolphin site is only about 800 pixels wide.

To the sides I have a nice background picture.

I want to add some html content, a menu actually,

on the top left of the outside frame.

I realise that on some browsers with certain small window sizes

the menu may not be visible.

Still - I would find it VERY useful to be able to have this menu on all the site pages.

Can someone get me started at least....

Or if anyone has already put content outside the main section an example would be great!

Thanks

Dan Vantari

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Any answers to this question? Its not that hard to say 'no it cant be done without programming' is it?

several ways to do it, show you 2 here

1)

templates/tmpl_uni/_header.html (added code is green, maybe you need to change style position)

__includebase _header.html__
__ray_invite_swf__
__banner_left__

<div style="position:absolute;top:150px;left:20px;width:100px;height:1px;">
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/links.php">Links</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/news.php">News</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/contact.php">Contact Us</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/about_us.php">About us</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/privacy.php">Privacy</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/terms_of_use.php">Terms</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/faq.php">FAQ</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/story.php">Add feedback</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" onclick="return launchTellFriend();" href="http://www.toppdate.com/tellfriend.php">Invite a friend</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" onclick="addBookmark(); return false;" href="http://www.toppdate.com/#">Bookmark</a></div>
</div>

<div style="position:absolute;top:0px;right:0px;width:1px;height:1px;">__banner_right__</div>

2)

a) templates/tmpl_uni/_header.html (added code is green, maybe you need to change style position)

__includebase _header.html__
__ray_invite_swf__
__banner_left__

<div style="position:absolute;top:150px;left:20px;width:100px;height:1px;">
__my_menu_left__
</div>

<div style="position:absolute;top:0px;right:0px;width:1px;height:1px;">__banner_right__</div>

b)

open file inc/design.inc.php and find function TmplKeysReplace($m)

and this line: case 'hello_member': $sRet = HelloMemberSection(); break;

Add this code below it: case 'my_menu_left': $sRet = MyMenuLeft(); break;

c)

open file /templates/tmpl_uni/scripts/functions.php and add this function at the bottom of the file

( but above this ?> )

function MyMenuLeft()
{
global $site;
global $tmpl;

ob_start();
?>

<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/links.php">Links</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/news.php">News</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/contact.php">Contact Us</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/about_us.php">About us</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/privacy.php">Privacy</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/terms_of_use.php">Terms</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/faq.php">FAQ</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" href="http://www.toppdate.com/story.php">Add feedback</a></div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" onclick="return launchTellFriend();" href="http://www.toppdate.com/tellfriend.php">Invite a friend</a>  </div>
<div><a class="menu_item_link" onclick="addBookmark(); return false;" href="http://www.toppdate.com/#">Bookmark</a></div>

<?
return ob_get_clean();
}