Framing

Framing, in terms of the World Wide Web, consists of display of objects in a website with the use of frames. Websites organize by the use of frames, where individual elements can be placed in different categories according to framing. It is a border that differientates HTML documents.

A frame is made up of headers and sidebars. When the content frame is scrolled up and down, the headers and sidebar menus do not move. For website developers, frames can be convienent because if an item needs to be added to a sidebar menu, it is simple because one file has to be changed. The framing method divides the browser window into multiple "panes", therefore each of them can contain seperate web pages. An example of the method would be keeping the navigation bar always visible on the left-hand frame, while the content is displayed and can be changed on the right-hand frame.

A number of negative aspects come along with website framing, such as framing change the behaviour of a back button or sometimes visitors arrive to search engines that may land them upon a page intended for display in a frame, in which often has no navigation.

WEBSITE WITHOUT A FRAME

WEBSITE WITH THE USE OF FRAMING

Resources: http://www.html-faq.com/htmlframes/?framesareevil http://webmc.fsu.edu/teachers/composer/frames.html