Frames have a bad reputation from when not all browsers supported them, and from people overusing them or not knowing how to properly set up the target frames. Doing frames right takes more than just HTML. It takes some scripting as well.
Pro:
Frames make it easy to keep the same parts of a page always visible, typically the top and left. The logo and navigation are always in the same spot, so there's no worries about having multiple files to update when you change something. Frames can be validated with a W3C validator to prevent problems later.
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If not done correctly, the links in your page will not open in the right frame. If some of the links on your website lead to other websites, you have no control over what they will do to your frame layout. Many websites are still configured with "frame-breaker" scripts that ensure that their website does not load in a frame, thus overriding yours. Printing from frames can be a real pain since the Print button only prints the active frame, and that frame is determined by where the visitor last clicked. Some people use browsers that have the ability to turn off support for frames, so you still need to have a <![CDATA[ area in your main frames page.<br />
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Personally, I believe that there are plenty of other technologies that can replace frames, so I very rarely consider or use them. The choice is always up to the person creating the website, but I tend to discourage it.
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2007-12-06 05:44:49
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<span>answered by <u>Michael B</u> <b>3</b></span>
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Uh, just don't use them. Trust me. For one thing search engines have a hard time navigating around them and people who don't use frames won't be able to use your site. Where did you hear that they help with navigation?? That's a total lie. iframes are better than regular frames, but it's best not to use either of those. Do you really need something like that? It's worth reorganizing your site if necessary to avoid them.
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2007-12-06 10:40:52
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<span>answered by <u>Opal</u> <b>6</b></span>
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pass to a salvage backyard and seem. you could deduct how issues have been geared up from yesteryear automobile to todays automobile. there's a clarification why they shifted style of shape. If i could desire to enable you already know, interior the previous days in the previous vehicles that they had hay wagons. that they had timber frames. least perplexing to make, plenty so any 13 300 and sixty 5 days previous can positioned a physique mutually and wheels on it to have a Kart. because of the fact the gas engine got here into the scene, they have been rather put in a hay wagon layout. rather any physique could desire to be slapped on suitable of certainly one of those rigid physique. Conan probably had it after he invented the wheel. ordinary and primitive.(professional) Unibody is unquestionably bodywork all bolted mutually and setting up properly. The physique skeleton could be bumped off and the automobile is "only" as solid. yet that is for using purposes in basic terms. in the experience that your license in basic terms shall we you smack into brick partitions, then pass with the physique variety in case you want to get by.(professional) possibilities are high unibody will bounce off the wall because of the fact that is lighter in weight(professional) I hear they are changing out the plastic components for "super ball" rubber to toughen the holiday.
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If you use frames, you are giving up having search engines properly index your website, thus failing to be discoverable on search engines, you will have a non-ecommerce website which the world will never discover or view.<br />
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2007-12-06 08:55:01
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Easy to keep header and nav but bad for search engines!
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<span>answered by <u>Michael Dennis</u> <b>2</b></span>
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