What's the best way to navigate a web site without using framesets?

Question

Frames are not search engine friendly - so how can I connect my 7 or 8 sub pages from the index page without using frames?

Answer 1

Firstly do NOT use tables for layout, only for tabular data. To get the best basis for search engine results from a site use html styled with css. All you need is a simple navigation bar with all your subpages linked to it, repeat the nav bar on all the pages to give consistent navigation to your site. You can then tweak your search engine stuff knowing that you've given it a good clean start. There seems to be a tendency to massively overcomplicate things, but the reality is that you can get far better effects usually by using soung coding as your basis.

Answer 2

If you are using framesets, you probably are using either front page or dreamweaver. Create a template instead which contains the content you want duplicated on each page and only change the content. It will cut down on your work, and unless you are doing massive things in your top nav frame, it really wont impact the refresh or load times.

If you absolutely need to use a frame (for external site for example) make it an inline frame. This way, all of your content is preserved for the engine bots.

Answer 3

You need to use tables, or div's to divide up the page. And put your content in these structures. It's kind of tedious, but it's really the only way to do it. You can link all the pages with another table with all your navigation links.

If your using a scripting language, you can create a file called (whatever), but nav.php, or nav.js, or nav.asp and include them in all your pages.

Answer 4

learn html / css

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