Designing a new page template with frames

[Guest]

I am trying to figure out if I can create a table and then insert frames
inside of the table. For example, I am looking at this website:
www.http://www.wustenbergerland.com/about.html that appears to be using
frames but has a background. Any ideas on how to create a page template in
front page similiar in layout as the above site?
thanks!

 

[Andrew Murray]

You don't/can't put frames in the table, you'd put the table in the
frameset. However that site you've mentioned is using tables, not frames.
They are two different things.

You put a normal background image on the page, then insert or draw your
table, and centre it like it is on the example site you've given.

 

[Guest]

Hi - I agree with Andrew, the web site you've linked to doesn't use frames at
all. However, if you did want to use frames within a table, you could always
use an inline frame (Insert > Inline Frame). However, remember that frames
are inherantly a bad thing for search engines and accessibility and it's
always better to not use them if you can avoid it.

Good luck

Stewart Leahy, Web Site Creation, Huddersfield, UK.

 

[Andrew Murray]

If you need the same content on every page, you can use the "include"
component or shared borders, or even dynamic web templates (Frontpage 2003
only has DWT's).

If your server supports it, you could probably use ordinary standard Server
Side Includes (SSI) and not the Frontpage version of SSI (includes, shared
borders) to include common elements such as a menu and title banner.

 

[Murray]

However, remember that frames

are inherantly a bad thing for search engines

This is a commonly posted urban legend. A search engine reads HTML. A
frame is HTML.

Most likely what you mean is that when using frames, one can get some
unpleasant surprises when your navigation frame is indexed, and that is
true.

 

[Clark]

Or that one might forget to pay attention to the frames page itself
with regard to preparing it for search engines