This tutorial is meant to give the
beginning web designer a basic understanding of how to make a frames based page. For more
detailed information on all the components of frames, you can do a web search for
"Frames Tutorial". AOL members who wish for more information should
download the frames tutorial from Keyword "OTN".
What are frames?
click
to go Full Screen
Frames are much like split screen video. You
can separate your web page into two or more pages on one screen, allowing viewers to
scroll one page, while the other remains intact. Using frames you can divide pages into
multiple, scrollable sections.
Some of the features of frames are:
- using links to open pages in one frame while the others remain
intact
- implementing navigation bars
- using a frame to list table of contents
How do frames work?
It takes at least 3 html pages to make frames work, the two
(or more) that make up the contents of the page, and one page with codes to link the
frames all together, called a Frame Document. In a Frame
Document, the <BODY> tag is replaced with the <FRAMESET> tag. Here is a simple
Frame Document:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET COLS="15%,*">
<FRAME SRC="name or url of
first frame" NAME="MENU">
<FRAME SRC="name or url of
second frame" NAME="MAIN">
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
We hope this helps you with your frames.
If you don't want to learn frames, here's a page that will
give you the codes. http://www.teleport.com/~cooler/frames/decoder.html
INTRO | LAYOUT | TARGETING | MULTIPLE | NO FRAMES
|
