Frames make it possible to view multiple HTML documents in the same browser wind

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Frames make it possible to view multiple HTML documents in the same browser window. Frames also offer designers a way to keep certain information visible, while changing other information. However, every designer should consider the pros and cons of frames before integrating them into the design. Discuss the usefulness and drawbacks of frames. When is it appropriate to use frames, and when is it not appropriate? Find at least 2 websites that illustrate your view. Are frames becoming more popular? Justify your answer.

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Advantages of Frames
1. One of the most beneficial feature of frames is it lets the user to have multiple pages in the same browser.

2. Using frames we can keep one part of the page static while changing the other parts of the page.

3. If we create a top frame we can use it as a header i.e, as that page is static it acts like an include page.

4. Frames can be used to reduce server load, as there is no need to reload all the pages when ever a new page is visited.

5. Mastheads, banners, ads, sidebars, and menus can remain visible at all times, while the main content is displayed in a separate scrollable window.

Disadvantages of Frames

1. One of the main disadvantage of frames is search engines will not deal with them properly. i.e, search engines (including most popular ones) will not index pages containing frames as its hard for them to search for a specific content and move backwards to check to which frameset each page belongs to and retrieve all the pages in the frameset.

2. Its hard to navigate through pages in frames when we have more than two or three frames.

3. Its difficult to print the content of all frames when compared to a normal web page.

4.. Some browsers doesn't support frames, so we need to place the content seperately for the people who doesn't have frames using <noframes> ... </noframes>

5. We cannot bookmark individual pages using browser's Favourites Menu.

6. Frames can make the production of a website complicated, although current software addresses this problem.

7. Older browsers do not support frames.

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