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Old 10-29-2003, 12:16 PM
 
Gibberish Gibberish is offline
 

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Originally Posted by chatfield
Thanks gibberish, I really appreciate being called an amateur.

I didnt mean to offend.

What I was meaning that more novice designers use frames because they dont think about the draw backs of the inaccessibility of frames.

Just a few points are that you cannot link a page, or even bookmark a favorite spot of the site. This would be a big no no for a store since most people like to bookmark or send links to friends for opinions on products or bookmark it to come back to it later. When using frames if they bookmark it will most always bring them to the index.html

Search engines cant really find anything if the site is in frames.

Printing is terrible in frames.

Frames take longer to load since the browser has to load a few pages in order rather then just one.

Also you get a blinking effect everytime you click on a link.

I dont think we want to get in a pros and cons debate with frames. I am just saying that functionally and userablitly wise they are bad for websites.
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