Posted by Stephen Poley on 07/12/06 15:15

On 12 Jul 2006 07:33:29 -0700, "Water Cooler v2" <wtr_clr@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Are HTML frames a good thing or a bad thing?

Mostly bad, for reasons discussed many times in the
comp.infosystems.www.* groups - see the archive.

They may have their uses when you are putting real content in multiple
frames (i.e. not just a heading or a navigation bar) and you expect that
the user will want to adjust the frame sizes...

>For someone who knows HTML, and only a measely bit of JavaScript and
>DOM familiarity, what are the alternatives to frames?
>
>When people design a navigation bar to their websites, the one to the
>left that displayes links on the same website, do most of them use HTML
>frames or other means? What are such other means apart from displaying
>a graphic image that gives the impression of a borderless frame, and
>displaying links/text in a table on top of that image?

.... but I gather that doesn't apply in this case.

Try something like this:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/layout3.html


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Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

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