Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Unleashed

Chapter 8. Working with Frames and Framesets

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Understanding Framed Websites

• Creating Frames and Framesets

• Adjusting Frame Attributes

• Adjusting Frameset Attributes

• Adding Content to Frames

• Saving Frames and Framesets

• Targeting Frames

• IFrames

• Targeting Browsers That Don’t Support Frames

In the mid 1990s, Netscape introduced a proprietary HTML extension known as frames. The idea was that web pages at the time used up far too much memory and required excessive bandwidth to be viewed within a time span that didn’t bore the user. On top of that, Netscape hoped that framed sites could be viewed only within Netscape, further positioning its browser implementation as the standard of the time.

Designers of the time fell right in line with the concept, ...