Re: Critics Wanted

From: Enno Rehling <enno@despammed.com>

Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:35:06 +0000

Mark Stott wrote:
> what do people have against frames?  Mine work well.
>
> http://roleplayers.users.btopenworld.com/

You can't bookmark individual pages of the site - for example the rules. On
a good website, you should be able to make a link to any view of the site
you have at any point, and with frames, you can't.

Search engines usually have problems with frames. Your site isn't listed by
Google at all, maybe because it's new, or because there's simply no content
in index.html at all.

And frames are simply not necessary today. If all you want is a few static
parts and a dynamic part of the page, have a look at SSI (server side
includes). It's easier than PHP (albeit a lot less powerful), and more
flexible than frames.

BTW: this is how your page looks to a blind person (I'm using lynx):
    FRAME: ICENITOPSIDE
    FRAME: ICENIMENU
    FRAME: ICENIBODY
    FRAME: ICENIBOTTOMSIDE
And when I select the body frame, I get some text but no navigation at all,
while the bottom navigation is cumbersome to use because of the image map.

Enno.
--
If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is
consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan. (Andrew Plotkin)

References

Critics Wanted
Lords of Gyrne Game Master <help@gyrne.de>
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:23:40 +0000
Re: Critics Wanted
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:24:29 +0000
Re: Critics Wanted
"Mark Stott" <mark.stott@btinternet.com>
Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:19:44 +0000