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Why you should avoid frames in your website design

04 November 2011

Web designers are occasionally confronted with clients who have antiquated conceptions of what makes a website good. The most frustrating of these is the use of frames. Frames were cool in the early days of the internet, before CSS made styling web pages so much simpler. Frames essentially tell the browser to create a divide between two parts of the page, and to load a separate page into each panel.

You can do various things with frames, such as keep one part of the page static while the other part can be scrolled (useful for navigation), but all of these functions can now be handled much better by using CSS and Ajax. Here are a few reasons why you shouldn’t be using frames in your website design. After we look at these, we’ll look at a simple solution for using CSS to handle what frames used to take care of.

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