Page division options

In our sample page we have used two of the possible ways of specifying frame size. There is no hard or fast rule as to which you should use -- your choice will be determined by your plans for your page and you can use one or a combination of them.

You can specify your page divisions as a fixed pixel value, a percentage of the browser window or the remainder of the browser window.

For example: Rows = 200,100,* creates three rows, one 200 pixels deep, one 100 pixels deep and one the height of the remainder of the browser window.

Cols = 100, 50%,* creates three columns, one 100 pixels deep, one 50 percent of the width of the window and the last the width of the remainder of the browser window.

Rows = *,4*, Rows = 20%,*, Rows = 20%,80% each of these settings creates two rows, the second being four times as high as the first.

Interesting frame sites

These sites have some helpful frames tutorials:

• The Netscape Frames Tutorial(tm) -- NewbieNET:
  http://www.newbie.net/frames/

• Ralf Muehlen's Small Tutorial on Frames: http://kidshealth.org/~muehlen/papers/frame/

• Netscape's own online frame reference: http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/frames.html

• The English Composition #1 site offers an interesting use of frames: http://jaring.nmhu.edu/pendidik/english/comp/c1/comp1.htm

• Frames can work effectively in online tutorials too. A favourite site of ours with good frames use is Web Pages that suck: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/home.html.

• And the I Hate Frames Club is for everyone interested in ridding the Web of frame-based sites and for anyone who just wants to know what all the fuss is about: http://www.wwwvoice.com/hatefrm.html