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Frameset Usage
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:45 pm
by emmbec
Hi Everyone, its been a long time since I created a website, and I was wondering if FRAMESETs are still used now days??? I've seen a lot of websites that when you click a menu, it reloads the whole page, now, I know that can be avoided using a FRAMESET to only load certain sections of the site, but is there another way?? Is it bad to use frames???
Thanks!
Re: Frameset Usage
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:39 pm
by emmbec
OK I just found a very good reason not to use frames. If a user wants to bookmark a particular section of your website, it will not be possible if you are using frames, so I guess that is a very good reason not to use them. Anyway, if you think of another one I would appreciate it if you could tell me.
Thanks!
Re: Frameset Usage
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:24 am
by matthijs
Frames have many problems. A few, in no particular order:
- Search engines don't like them. Sometimes they cannot crawl them well or return the wrong pages to the searcher (a page from within the frame is returned in the search result list, so when a visitor arrives at that page the surrounding context is missing)
- Printing them. Sometimes the wrong frame is printed
- Are ugly
- Accessibility issues? Not sure about this one, but I bet there are a few.
- Missing of good URLs. So visitors (and search engines) only see yoursite.com for all your pages. Much better to see /about/, /products/, etc
Most sites nowadays use some sort of content management system or at least are based on server side templating (php includes for example), so any of the advantages of frames are no more relevant