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[madams]

Hi All...

Is there any known problems with site visitors seeing IFRAME´s

At the bottom of my site property pages, I have an IFRAME showing a yearly caledar of bookings for each property.

I have had a few inquiries asking for dates that are clearly (to me) booked.

I just got off the phone to one client and he said he couldn´t see it! (the calendar)

As I spent a lot of time updating these calendars, I am peeved to think people cant see them for some reason.

Here is an example...

Are there any issues i should know about?
If so, how can I rectify the problem.

Regards as always
M

[qwerty]

I don't know. There may be browsers out there -- older ones, I'd guess -- that can't handle Iframes. Why not just insert the calendar as an include file?

[Jill]

I've run into problems with them before.

I use an iframe for my seminar registration to pull the offsite reg. system into my site. For some it doesn't work. Because of that, I have a link at the top that says "if the form doesn't show up below, please go directly to it here" and give them the link.

I also just created an appointment booking form for my new tele-clinics that pulls an offsite appt. scheduling software into my site. On this one, I completely lose my javascript navigation (actually I lose it on the reg. form one too I see). It's definitely got something to do with the iframe as it shows up fine if I remove that.

Adding the direct link seems to be the best bet in these quirky cases.

[madams]

Thanks for that.

The link option seems the best way, just in case some people cant see the iframe.

[giorgoc]

Sorry to ask, but does your question here have to do with SEO or simply usability?

Usability-wise I don't believe there is some kind of problem. But for SEO this is a problem.

[qwerty]

Actually, I'd say the exact opposite, giorgoc. I doubt the information in the calendar is something you'd need a search engine to see. It's certainly not the kind of thing a potential customer would be searching for, although they'd find it useful when they saw it. That is, people may search for [spanish villa for rent], but I wouldn't expect them to search for [spanish villa for rent week of april 8-14].

I think it's strictly a question of usability. The calendar is there to assist customers in choosing a time to book a property. If they don't see it, they need to come up with another way to choose a time when the property is available.

[madams]

Yeh...

Strictly usability.

I guess most visitors can see the calendar because they will ask for reservations for a period that is available on the calendar.

A small proportion though, ask for dates that are clearly unavailable.

Now, perhaps they dont go to the bottom of the page (where the calendar is) or thay just can see it!

If you have the time could you check out this page and let me know if you can see it. If you cant, the brouser you are using would be helpfull.

Regards

[qwerty]

I can see it fine in all my browsers except for NS 4.8, which completely ignores it. The page just ends after the prices.

[piskie]

qwerty - do you still test pages in NS 4.X
I thought we all ignored it nowadays and breathed a sigh of releaf.

[qwerty]

That was the first time I'd opened the browser in about a year, and only because madams specifically requested browsers that couldn't display the iframe. I normally just test in FF, IE and Opera.

[piskie]

Once I made the decission to go heavily into CSS, I ditched all efforts to accommodate NN4.X because it integrated it's CSS with Javascript functions. So if you turned off Javascript, the CSS was ignored. What a mess that could make.

[vtownbarries]

Hi,

I have a page, where the data or content is in an iframe.
WIll google see this as cloaking?

I was under the impression that both pages, the main, and the frame will then be indexed with its content and then give you more internal links thus make your site more searchable?

Please advise...

[Randy]

I have a page, where the data or content is in an iframe.
WIll google see this as cloaking?

No, it's not cloaking.

Each file will be indexed and ranked as a standalone that is separate from any other page.

[vtownbarries]

w that is good.
I thought I might be penalized!

Thanks!

[Force7]

Sorry to ask, but does your question here have to do with SEO or simply usability?

Usability-wise I don't believe there is some kind of problem. But for SEO this is a problem.

You are saying that IFrames are bad for SEO? Can you elaborate more on this? Or point me to some additional information.