I was asked today about using frames for a site, Now I havent been
involved in doing a site in a couple of years and what is the thought
behind frames thesedays? Am I right in saying that Yahoo would'nt
index you if your site had frames?

The main concern to me is that we want to have the top of the page
stagnent when we are scrolling down the page, This will effectively
become the top frame. The (top of page will have graphic and
navigation, i.e, home about Products etc), the Navigation about the
site needs to use a drop down menu and sub menu, but if this drop down
menu is activated from a button in the top frame is it possible to
have it visible over the content frame? as that layer belongs to the
top frame shich may be say 120pixels in height and the menu needs to
be say 300 pixels in height.
I hope I have made this clear

any info is most appreciated

Thanks,

a lot of developers are moving away from frames for a number of reasons. they cause problems with certain browsers and if content is somehow shifted for whatever reason you may lose visibility and control over some of it. also it is difficult to link directly to certain specific sections of a site etc.

however there are solutions. you can use layers with css absolute positioning which will remain in place as the user scrolls down, this can also be done in DHTML layers (and i believe also with SPAN layers). hotscripts.com and dynamicdrive.com have loads of page-static dhtml menus and systems you can look at, and there are a couple of DW extensions out there to make layers static (i think the extension is called "persistent layers".

however be warned that layers also have a tendency to fuck up accross platforms and browsers, so i'm afraid there is no clear answer (as far as i know) this is probrably why the developing trend has moved away from statically positioned content and have instead chosen to make pages which are in shorter in length to avoid the problems of scrolling menu systems.

as far as yahoo is concerned, i am not entirely sure about their policy on frames, but it sounds like it could be the case as there are very few professionally developed sites using frames on the internet.

hope it helped a little!

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