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Frames are a very good tool if you
have a lot of different information to supply. It is important
to remember, however, that you are entering into an area that
requires quite a lot of organization and skill if you are
relying on html to produce the frames. I would suggest if you
are going to use frames to get a copy of Front Page, or a
similar program that will do a lot of the html for you.
What frames do, is give you two
or three different areas on your screen, in which to put
information. Each frame is built as a separate web page and
then combined into one page. There are some basic rules
governing frames which need to be followed.
The
Rules for frames
Frames differ from tables in
that when you scroll down in one frame the other frames stay
constant. They are used especially when people need to use a
frame for lots of navigation and there is a relatively complex
navigation structure.
In the diagram below we have
set up an example of how your page would look. You would not
necessarily have the borders shown but I have left them in for
ease of explanation. On the left side you would need to build
your web page to take up a narrower space and this is usually
where you put your index. Even when you scroll down the page
in the centre frame the side and top frame will stay set. It
is also a good rule to try and not have scrolling on the side
and top frame as it tends to look messy. For this reason it
takes quite a lot of testing to develop a neat page that uses
frames.
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Frame
1
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Top
Frame
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Target
Frame
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By clicking on a link in Frame
1 or Top
Frame you open up the web page in the Target
Frame. This is an important concept and skill to
learn as you don't want the side frame to open a new page,
because you will only be able to see a very small area of the
whole page. The top frame is usually used for a logo or
special message.
Frames
Examples
Here is another nice frame.
and tutorial.
As I mentioned before it can be
quite a complicated process and so I am not going to cover it
here. If you want to learn more I have put two excellent links
to simple tutorials on frames.
The first is by Dan Brown. Go
there now.
The second is by Charlton D.
Rose, a.k.a. "Sharky" graduated from Brigham
Young University with a Master's degrees in Computer
Science. You should have a look at this site as it is a lot of
fun and a good read as well. You can get
there here.
An introduction to frames.
This is a very simple tutorial and gives all you need to
master frames.
Again you can make frames in
Sothink editor.
Remember that when
using frames some browsers do not handle them and so always
offer an alternative. Lets have a look at putting some forms
on your site.
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Here are
some online games which are a lot of fun. Just click
on the game and it will open up in a new window. Just
follow the instructions or play. They are pretty
simple.
My
favourite is Invaders.
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