Frames ~ and my “mini-rant” about same….
and I’m NOT ranting because they’re still in use, either!
As it happens, I’m one of those people who, when she first hit a site that was done with frames, jumped up and down screaming “Finally someone got it RIGHT!” Unfortunately, since then frames have become one of those extremely useful, usable things that are denigrated, despised, and finally, deprecated. Well, I’m sorry, but frames still make a site and its navigation easy to use. The only reasons I can see for making frames the despised stepchildren of the Internet are these dual, oft repeated rationales:
1. You can’t bookmark a framed site. [Bunk - of course you can. It’s very easy - you simply right click inside the frame you want to bookmark. Even a child of five can do this.]
2. Search engines can’t find framed sites, therefore your rankings will suffer. Unfortunately, this is true. However, seems to me the logic fails here: instead of knuckling under to the SEs, why didn’t the Internet community force the SEs to figure it out? Sheer silliness, not to mention stupidity. A really bad idea to live and die by what SEs think is the way to do things….
In any case, I no longer am comfortable “framing” my sites. While I don’t live and die for traffic of any kind, I do try to fit within the mold of a person who designs sites to current standards - which isn’t true if I frame them up, is it? *SIGH* Frames and the navigation one uses with same make so much more sense than the idiocies that abound any more….
