10-Second Summary
Add interactivity to your Web site by creating framesets
Save time by using predefined frame templates
Reach all viewers by adding No Frames content
Customize framesets to match your site s organization
Target frames to respond to links in other frames
Embed Web page content within an inline frame
Corporate Web sites that have been broken into multiple subwebs and contain many layers of Web pages can easily get complex, creating the need for a way of navigating the whole site easily. Frames provide a design team with one option for making complex business Web sites easier to navigate, while adding graphic interest and interactivity. Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 enables you to easily divide a single Web page into two or more frames, each of which has its own URL. By dividing Web pages into frames, you can display multiple Web pages within a single Web page.
Frames are ideal for many business applications. Some frames are static ” with content (such as your company s logo or a banner ad) that remains on screen as long as the viewer is on your site. Others are dynamic ” their content changes when the viewer clicks on links contained in other frames. This chapter examines the various ways in which FrontPage makes frames easy to arrange and organize ”which, in turn , makes your Web sites more usable.
Lingo | A frame is a subdivision of a Web page. Each frame contains a Web page and has its own properties, such as scrollbars and resizable borders. A frameset is a set of frames ”the frameset page contains instructions that tell a browser how to present the rows and columns within the frameset and what properties (such as scrollbars) to display with each frame. |