I've started to learn to write my own html coding for my site. I've run into a problem I hope someone can help me with please. When I say started, I mean I've read most of one online tutorial I found on the weekend, so I'm fresh as......fresh! OK! I've set the page up with a frame down one side for menu buttons, with the result of clicking the button to appear in the main window. Now, I haven't done the buttons yet, so the left frame is empty, but as a temporary measure, I've put text links in the main window, so my members and guests can still access the forums whilst the site is being built. The forums are remotely hosted. Now, the issue I have is that when someone clicks on the link in the main window to go to the forums, the forums show up in the main window as desired, but they no longer remain logged in on subsequent visits, and read posts are not registered as read. It's almost like the cookies are not being retained for the main window frame. Is there a way to fix this? When you go to the forums without going through the front door, ie: the main site, you can stay logged in each time you visit, and read posts are remembered as read. The only way I've thought of to get around this would be to make the forums open up in the current window, without the frames, and then just put a link on the forum that will take you back to the main site with the frames. This then leads me to the next question. What do I have to do in my HTML coding to make the forums open up in the current window, without the frames? Remembering that the index.html is simply the frameset, and the contents are main.html and sidemenu.html. I hope I explained this well enough. The site I'm talking about is in my sig. What you see on the site (which is only the main page so far) is all written from scratch by me, so there may be some coding corrections you can suggest if you view source. Cheers, Crash Lander