Re: Frames or No Frames

Richard Footitt (journey_at_singingdrum.com)
Thu, 22 Aug 1996 00:52:18 +0000

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I was wondering if anyone knows any information about the
popularity of "frames" style web pages vs. non frames. I personally
do not like them, but I wondered if there are any surveys done on
the subject?

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Ana Petrova

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this list and this is my first response.

My experience with frames has been that most people do not like them.
I've seen the question posed. If fact, it was me that posed it on
another list and the response from the people on that list who are
mostly web site authors was that as producers of web pages, they
liked them alot, but as surfers, they unaquivically hate them.
Basically it came down to that as web authors they enjoyed the
challenge and the creativity that goes into putting frames on pages,
but when they are out on the Net themselves surfing, they tend to
move on when they come upon frames.

I have to admit that I do this too.

I enjoyed one comment that a person made, and I think it is very
true. It went something like this: browser real estate is very much
limited, and with the addition of frames, it cuts it up even into
smaller and smaller parcels. I got a chuckle out of that one.

I do think that frames can tend to confuse the new surfer. I know I
was confused the first time I came upon them. I didn't know which
frame to click or where it would take me. It seemed then and still
does to me now that frames pose a situation with too many choices to
make on one screen.

I once considered putting frames on my site, but then decided that a
good site does not need them, and so have not as of yet put them to
use in my web page authoring.
Richard,

Singing Drum Productions
Life is a Spiritual Adventure
http://www.singingdrum.com

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