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Frames Navigation Dilemma

I am aware frames are essentially outdated and loathed, yet our site at present contains frames. We use it to keep a navigation bar to the screen at all times, so that users can mouse click on the links in the navigation bar to get away from whatever it is usually they’re viewing. Unfortuately, because of the fact the site is within frames, the main web site administrator has the idea set such that each clicked link has a base target associated with " _parent" and clicking for a link takes one to another framed page which contains the same navigation bar and the new page. (Say, the link was a connection to a comics part. Clicking on that link, loads a brand new frames page that contains the navigation bar available as one frame and the actual comics page in the other). The reason for this, or thus he says, is in order that people who enter your website from links they find over a search engine similar to Google, when clicking using a link will always regain the use of the navigation pub. I think, this defeats the reason for frames, which I see as a tool to … Continue reading

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