Do you use frames?

[khuldun]

I hate using frames, i dont know why but i have never put a frame in any of my website. Its like a page in a page, eating excessive bandwidth!! What do you think of frames? Do you use them? What for?

[Positive]

Re: Do you use frames?

Frames are not good for SEO so I dont use them. People might see your website incomplete if search engine has indexed your pages seperately.

[khuldun]

Re: Do you use frames?

Why would people see the website incompletely? The SE should be seeing i like that, any visitor would get teh full page including the frame, unless the framed page is down

[Positive]

Re: Do you use frames?

Suppose you have a website dxy.com and for index page you have used frames for two pages dxy.com/a.html and dxy.com/b.html

now if the search engine only index a.html instead of index page and anyone goes to that page from search engine, he wont see b.html page and it will be incomplete index page.

[carljohnson_cj]

Re: Do you use frames?

yeah i use frames but they are not of much use these days

[Ammar]

Re: Do you use frames?

Never used frames. Heard they are alright but oh well! I might try using em next time

[Vanhalen4041]

Re: Do you use frames?

I used to a bit. Don't really care for them. Also, yes they are bad for SEO.

[santro]

Re: Do you use frames?

I had used frames once in the past to assist navigation. That site got indexed very well!

But now I hate frames.
I use include() Function of PHP

[Noner]

Re: Do you use frames?

Frames are already a such of old tecnic. It is not modern and it makes site look stupid. The only thing I have been using SOME TIMES it is iframes. It doesn't make SO much site stupid. It doesn't destroy the look of the site. But I last time used frames from 4 years for one site and it wasn't even good looking.

[YesterNex]

Re: Do you use frames?

I hate using frames, I did with 'one' website, but decided to not use frames anymore, I didn't like them. They're useful however.

[lee101]

Re: Do you use frames?

i used to use frames to make ite easier for me to update navigation, but now I use php include() for everything, so long as php is availible, if not server-side includes

[aqua]

Re: Do you use frames?

I think using frames is an out dated thing. It gives a classic look, so I never use them.

[raziel]

Re: Do you use frames?

I also hate frames, I believe Google doesn't crawl them very well.
There are other goo techniques for navigations.

[Noner]

Re: Do you use frames?

Well yes, frames are terrible. Usually myself, when I see a site with frames, I am closing it and quickly. Only frames, what I can look is iframes, and they are a bit of noobish too. Frames are history, nobody uses them these days. It is time for new technology.

[dojo]

Re: Do you use frames?

Few years ago I had 2-3 sites on IFRAME. It was a nice way to have 1 page with the main design and make the content pages in the frame. I didn't have php/mysql support back then and it was a trick for me to manage 30 pages of content without having to redesign all of them. I used 1 to display the layout and the content pages were "default" and would load inside.