Hi,

I've got a website with frames, but this can be a problem when someone finds any page other than the home page on a search engine, as it comes up minus the other frames.

How do I get the other frames to automatically load up as well when this happens? Because otherwise I think some people will not realise to go to the "root" website address, and will not be able to see the index and other pages as the only links are on the other frames.

Cheers

Sam Hawcroft
http://www.football-books.com

use tables

Don't use frames. They have been a big no no in web design for many years.

Always remember the guide to design is "Keep it simple".

If you want to rise high up Google you need to have individual pages each with their own title. Frames kill any chance of taking advantage of all your hard work plus they look unsightly (was looking on an 800 x 600 screen as main system not accessing internet at moment).

also frames make bookmarking hell, yet another reason not to use frames (the ghastly things)

hubuk, a lot of sites still utilise frames because of its quicker loading time.

samhawcroft if you look around on google for an anti googlebot code, add it too the frames that are not the index. you could also write, this page was ment to load in frams click here to access the site correctly

Hi there, I decided to use dreamweaver to make a tabled template (I'm not up tp doing that kind of thing in code!), and resave all my pages on to it (which took a while). But I do think it now works better without frames and doesn't take too much time to load. The real problem with frames was the orphaned pages being found on search engines, but I don't have this now. I guess it does mean I can't update the index panel without updating every single page, but I don't need to at the mo and will cross that bridge when I come to it! Thanks for your opinions.

Cheers

Sam
www.football-books.com