How to Add Employee Benefits Headlines To Your Web Site

Would your company like to include employee benefits headlines on its Web site, gathered every day for you by BenefitsLink at no charge? Using a simple coding process called "frames," you can add a free page of linked headlines to your site about any one or more of the topics covered by BenefitsLink.

Example 1

Your Logo Up Top; One Particular Set of Headlines Below

Assume your company is Acme Administration Consultants, and you have customers who sponsor 401(k) plans. On your company's Web site at www.acme-admin.com you'd like to be able to publish headlines to Web articles about 401(k) plans.
Here's what we're going to build: view Example 1 (click)
Now let's make the files. Using any text editor or word processor, create a file like this one; let's name it top_frame.html
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Top Frame (This Title Won't Show)</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#FFFF00">
<img src="http://benefitslink.com/gif/acme.gif" border="1" alt="Acme logo">
<HR>
Featured below for Acme Administration Consultants customers are headlines
about 401(k) plans, gathered from the World Wide Web.
<P>If you have questions about 401(k) plans in general or
if you'd like to discuss with us an issue raised in one of these articles,
we would be delighted to meet with you at the Acme offices or any another location
in southern California. Our phone number is (800) 555-ACME.
</BODY>
</HTML>
Next you check our table of headline topics and filenames (click), where you learn that the web address ("URL") of the page that contains headlines about 401(k) plans is http://benefitslink.com/framed/401kplans.html
Next you create a file like this one; let's name it frameset.html
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Acme Administration Consultants: 401(k) Headlines</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET ROWS="*,*" FRAMEBORDER="1" FRAMEBORDER="yes">
   <FRAME SRC="http://www.acme-admin.com/top_frame.html">
   <FRAME SRC="http://benefitslink.com/framed/401kplans.html">
   <NOFRAMES>I'm sorry, but your browser does not support the use of
   "frames." Your browser must be able to show frames before you can view
   this particular page.</NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
Upload both of those files to your Web site.
Place a link on your Web site's home page (or wherever you'd like) to your new 401(k) headlines page: http://acme-admin.com/frameset.html.
Now, when people visit Acme's Web site and click on the link to Acme's 401(k) headlines page, they'll see a page showing information about Acme in the top frame, and they'll see the current headlines about 401(k) plans in the bottom frame. The headlines will be kept up to date automatically by BenefitsLink, due to the way the headlines are being "framed" by the HTML code in the frameset.html file on Acme's Web site.

Example 2

Your Logo At Left (a "Navigation Bar"); List of All Topical Headlines at Right

Assume your company is Calhoun Law Group, P.C., and you have clients who are interested in all kinds of employee benefit plans. On your company's Web site at calhounlawgroup.com you'd like to provide your clients with access to all of the employee benefits headlines available from BenefitsLink.
Here's what we're going to build: view Example 2 (click)
Now let's make the files. Using any text editor or word processor, create a file like this one; let's name it navigation_bar.html
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Navigation Bar</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY TOPMARGIN="0" LEFTMARGIN="0" MARGINWIDTH="1" MARGINHEIGHT="1" bgcolor="#000000" TEXT="#ffffff" LINK="#ffffff" VLINK="#ffffff" ALINK="#ffffff">
<B><FONT FACE="Ariel" size="+1">CALHOUN LAW GROUP, P.C.
<P><A HREF="http://calhounlawgroup.com/" TARGET="_top">Home</A>
<P><A HREF="frameset_using_nav_bar.html" TARGET="_top">Benefits Headlines</A>
<P><A HREF="http://benefitsattorney.com/modules.php?name=Content" TARGET="_top">Publications</A>
<P><A HREF="http://calhounlawgroup.com/modules.php?name=Docs&file=about" TARGET="_top">About Us</A>
<P><A HREF="http://calhounlawgroup.com/modules.php?name=x_Guestbook&mode=w_main" TARGET="_top">Sign Guest Book</A>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Next you create a file like this one; let's name it frameset_using_nav_bar.html
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Headlines on Employee Benefits Law</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET BORDER=0 frameborder=0 framespacing=0 COLS="160,*">
<FRAME SRC="navigation_bar.html">
<FRAME SRC="headlines_listing.html">
<NOFRAMES>I'm sorry, but your browser does not support the use of
      "frames." Your browser must be able to show frames before you can view
      this particular page.</NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Finally, because the desired "content" will not be one particular page of headlines from BenefitsLink but instead will be a listing of certain headline pages, we need to create that list. You would make a file that looks a lot like the following; let's name it headlines_listing.html. (You'll need to modify the following a bit, to reflect the currently available headlines; see the table of headline topics and filenames (click).)
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Listing of Available Headlines on BenefitsLink (6/2000)</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<h1 align=center>
<a href="http://calhounlawgroup.com/">Calhoun Law Group, P.C.</a>
<BR>Headlines on Employee Benefits Law
</h1>
<table cols=3>
<TR>
<TD colspan=3>
<h2>Click on a link, below, to see headlines on the topic specified:</h2>
</td>
</tr>
<TR>
<TD valign=top>
<UL>
<LI><a href="http://benefitslink.com/framed/401kplans.html">401(k) Plans</a></li>
<LI><a href="http://benefitslink.com/framed/403bplans.html">403(b) Plans</a></li>
<LI><a href="http://benefitslink.com/framed/457plans.html">457 Plans</a></li>
</ul>
</td>
<TD valign=top>
<UL>
<LI><a href="http://benefitslink.com/framed/governmentplansfederal.html">Government Plans, Federal</a></li>
<LI><a href="http://benefitslink.com/framed/governmentplansstateandlocalinvestmentsof.html">Government Plans, State and Local - investments of</a></li>
<LI><a href="http://benefitslink.com/framed/governmentplansstateandlocalmisc.html">Government Plans, State and Local - misc</a></li>
</ul>
</td>
<TD valign=top>
<UL>
<LI><a href="http://benefitslink.com/framed/retplansadministration.html">Retirement Plans, Administration of</a></li>
<LI><a href="http://benefitslink.com/framed/retplansdesign.html">Retirement Plans, Design of</a></li>
<LI><a href="http://benefitslink.com/framed/worklifeissues.html">Work/Life Issues</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Upload all three of those files to your Web site.
Place a link on your Web site's home page (or wherever you'd like) to your new headlines page (if you're www.cvcalhoun.com): http://www.cvcalhoun.com/frameset_using_nav_bar.html.
Now, when people visit Calhoun Law Group's Web site and click on the link to Calhoun Law Group's headlines page, they'll see a page showing information about Calhoun Law Group's Web site in the left frame (the "navigation bar"), and they'll see in the right frame a listing of the topics for which headlines are available. Clicking on any of those topics causes that topic's headlines to load into the right frame. The headlines will be kept up to date automatically by BenefitsLink, due to the way the headlines are being "framed" by the HTML code in the frameset_using_nav_bar.html file on Calhoun Law Group's Web site.

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