Site help requested. Detailed questions!

[Infinity]

Okay, so I've given this html and css stuff a try.
I am trying to make a hobby webpage where I show off photographs of costumes at conventions, and tutorials on how to make stuff like that.

I've made this PNG to show you what I am trying to make:
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/1545/webpageplan.png

What I ended up with was this:
www.infinitylabs.ca


1) The central, main frame where things are to be loaded does not load centered in internet explorer, but it does in chrome.

2) I want my nav bar buttons to be either right beside one another with no spaces, or spaced out evenly along the bar, matching the width of the banner.

I know it looks pretty crappy, but this seems to be what my best is capable of right now with this crazy code stuff.

I will post some links to my source code for scrutinizing/help.
Thanks in advance!

http://www.infinitylabs.ca/txt/index.txt
http://www.infinitylabs.ca/txt/top.txt
http://www.infinitylabs.ca/txt/style0.txt
http://www.infinitylabs.ca/txt/home.txt

 

[Phreaddee]

frames are no good. why?
say someone googles your site, they will get this link
http://www.infinitylabs.ca/home.htm

hmmmm. as there is no content on your main page it will more than likely never show.
therefore users from google (which will probably be at least half of your customers) will never see menu or header.

just suck it up. 99% of the worlds websites refresh that content. if its done with css your looking at like 5ms of load...
frames are deprecated anyway, well unless you use the frameset doctype.
your about 15 years too late for that type of web design. sorry.

 

[Infinity]

Well, I'm not going for customers. Just sharing my work in what I hope to be an appealing way.
Your critisism is constructive, and I appreciate it!

So,if frames are no good, does that mean I should make each page.htm contain the navbar/banner?
Also, design wise do you have any examples of what a doable modern page looks like?

Thanks again for your reply.

 

[benjamin.morgan]

Frames are definitely not good. To get rid of the space in between the nav items you can add float left, i am guessing you used display : inline which keeps space between them.