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Frames

Frames are a Netscape extension to HTML which is supported by both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. Because of this, frames have many detractors.

Working with frames can be tricky because you need to have a very clear idea of how you want to organize your data. In other words, frames are easy to do wrong and difficult to do right. That said however, people have used frames to good effect. Do the first tutorial below and then pick one of the others and go through it quickly.

The Netscape Frames Tutorial (http://www.newbie.net/frames/)

This is a really nice frames tutorial. The only bad thing about it is that it has advertising on every page... Read this tutorial and create the examples talked about, you can just cut and paste them into your documents.

HTML 3.2 and Netscape 3.0: Frames (http://webreference.com/html3andns/frame.html)

A really quick version of the tutorial shown above. It does cover "frameless" frames however.

Frames Made Easy (http://www.ibic.com:80/NIndex/Frames/EZHome.html)

This is a lame tutorial on frames. However, it is small and self contained. The best way to use this tutorial is to view source on the different pages. Incidentally, to see an example of bad frame page design, click on the author's home page link (it says Web Design by Harold Carey Jr.) when the frames are present. You'll see his home page fill the tiny frame at the bottom, it's unreadable...