Are Framsets in or out..?

[Eggspit]

Hi,
My website skills can probably be classed as in the 'beginner' league and I am currently creating a basic/easy flowing website that consists of four areas.. 'Header' (top), 'Index' (left), 'Footer' (bottom) and the 'Main' bulk of information (right).

As the 'Header', 'Index' and 'Footer' are all static information, to save me time with any changes and speed up the pages when viewed on the internet, would I be better off using Framesets so the 'Main' section is the only part/page that changes..??

And If I should, how do you keep the right hand scroll bar to scroll the screen as one page..?

Thanks
Egg

 

[moondog]

Framesets are SO from the 80s. Stay away from them.

-Bob

 

[Albino]

yes, they are OUT!

you can "include" files, using javascript, php etc, to save you time

 

[Eggspit]

Thanks guys,
This was the inkling I had from reading other topics on Namepros..

Egg

 

[Technokinetics]

Frames are definitely out.

Albino's suggestion of using includes was a good one, though. See http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_includes.asp for details.

 

[Kate]

Frames should definitely be avoided. There are so 1990ish
With the use of includes you can easily repeat blocks of code that you edit only once.
There are other problems in terms of SEO and for the visitor it is frustrating not being able to bookmark the actual page because the url in the navigation bar stays the same.

 

[shockie]

out.

you can divide and break up your page that way using css, which is much faster to load, and much better for search engine optimization purposes. sometimes bots can even have trouble crawling pages that are made with frames.

 

[Technokinetics]

PHP includes are definitely the way to achieve what you want. I just wish I'd known that when I started building websites; it would have saved me days (if not weeks).

 

[Shane]

Framesets are SO from the 80s. Stay away from them.

-Bob

I know i wasnt even born then.. but didnt websites/public internet come out early 90's?

I have never used frame sets, i hate them! Use PHP includes.