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[Helen]

I'm looking at the frames way of doing a website as I've noticed a lot of
sites done this way now. Can anyone tell be exactly how you do it? I mean
how do you get all the pages to link in to each other?

Thanks for any help recieved.

 

[Els]

I'm looking at the frames way of doing a website as I've noticed a lot of
sites done this way now. Can anyone tell be exactly how you do it? I mean
how do you get all the pages to link in to each other?

The fact that you see a lot of sites in frames, doesn't mean this is
the most modern way. On the contrary, frames are out. Frames have
various disadvantages (google for 'frames are evil'), and it's best
not to start learning how to do the wrong thing ;-)

 

[David Dorward]

I'm looking at the frames way of doing a website as I've noticed a lot of
sites done this way now.

You have? It is very rarely that I come across a site that uses frames. The
technology has *way* too many problems.

http://allmyfaqs.net/faq.pl?Problems_with_using_frames

Can anyone tell be exactly how you do it? I mean
how do you get all the pages to link in to each other?

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/frames.html

 

[Rob McAninch]

I'm looking at the frames way of doing a website as I've
noticed a lot of sites done this way now. Can anyone tell be
exactly how you do it?

Are you talking frames or iframes? There's a difference.

In general, frames are bad idea as others have pointed out.
iframes are more accepted.

http://www.google.com/search?q=iframe

 

[David Dorward]

Are you talking frames or iframes? There's a difference.

In that iframes have slightly weaker browser support.

In general, frames are bad idea as others have pointed out.
iframes are more accepted.

Not really. 

 

[Toby Inkster]

In general, frames are bad idea as others have pointed out.
iframes are more accepted.

http://www.google.com/search?q=iframe

egads no. IFRAME suffers from nearly all of the usability problems that
frames do:

* "orphan" pages[1];
* limitations when bookmarking pages;
* problems printing complete pages;
* multiple scroll bar confusion; and
* poor support in older browsers[2].

Many of these problems have solutions, but why bother with hacks and
workarounds when you can avoid the problem altogether.

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1. If "http://example.org/index.html" opens an IFRAME containing
"http://example.org/welcome_note.html", then anybody directly visiting
"http://example.org/welcome_note.html" will see an "orphan" page, probably
without any navigation or site logos, branding, etc.

2. Indeed IFRAME has worse support than FRAME.