Frames

Frames are a catchy and very useful new feature that can be seen on any website today. We will go over how to create one frameset. The process is somewhat lengthy, but over time will speed up like everything new.

Using Frames

Think of a frameset as a window with individual sections. Each section shows different information, and you decide how many sections for the page, the size of the sections, basically all the features of each section. The first lesson will show you how to create a simple frameset with three horizontal rows all in the same column.

1. Type <FRAMESET after the </HEAD> tag on the frameset page
2. Type ROWS="X where X can be a percentage, a number which stands for pixels, or an asterisk (*) which represents a variable dependant on the contents of the other rows
3. Type ,Y where Y is the height of the second row. The Y cn be represented lie the X, percentage, pielsd, or (*).
4. Repeat step 3 for each additional row
5. Remember to close the row definition with a >
6. Type <FRAME to assign a URL and other attributes to that section
7. Type Name="name" where name is a word that is the name of that section.
8. Type <SRC="content.html"> where content.html is the URL dfor the page that will be initially displayed in this frame when the visitor first navigates to this frameset
9. Repeat steps 6-8 for each row you define is steps 2-4
10. Remember to close your frameset with <FRAMESET>

Now create the pages that will be displayed initially in the frames, those that were referenced by the SRC tag in step 8, otherwise known as the "landscape" behind the window.

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