Designing for the Framed Environment

As with tables, handmade frame creation with HTML coding is a picky business. The presence of a WYSIWYG frameset creation environment in FrontPage 2000 makes setting up and managing frames immeasurably easier. This environment works with framesets, which is what FrontPage calls several frames that appear together in a browser display. You don't actually insert framesets into a page; a frameset acts like a scaffolding in that it relates pages to each other.

Before you start creating a frameset, though, you need to think about how—or if—you're going to use the frame environment. Keep the following in mind: