She also cleaned up the server rules: a rewrite that forced directories to indexframe.shtml was changed to only apply to the site root, not to subdirectories. Finally, she tested on different browsers and confirmed the images loaded correctly in the content frame and direct visits to gallery URLs worked too.
A few days later the artist replied with a thank‑you and a link to a revived portfolio. Visitors could browse the images again, and Maya felt the quiet satisfaction of turning confusing legacy behavior into a simple, durable fix.
Maya opened the site in her browser and saw exactly what the artist described: a frameset-like layout served by indexframe.shtml, with each gallery link pointing to a relative path like "gallery/". The server used Apache with SSI enabled. Maya suspected two things: either the server was serving the same navigation wrapper for every request, or the links relied on a missing index file inside each folder.