Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates, Fourth Edition

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Chapter 2 ■ Designing for the Past, Present, and Future
2. Targeting frames and passing programming variables is considerably more
complicated than when using include files (that is, SSI, or Server Side
Includes).
3. Increasing the number of scrollbars decreases the amount of space a
designer has to work with (see Figure 2.9).
4. Search engines do not like frames. Therefore the site will suffer in searchengine
rankings, if it’s ranked at all.
Image Buttons
Creating menu items as images, rather than text, can be attractive. However,
simply for the advantage of a mouseover image, they are not necessary or practical
for four reasons:
1. Download time: A designer can drastically increase the download time of
a site when using mouseover images as menu items, because the user has
Figure 2.9
Site that uses an IFrame to control how much space a large amount of data takes up.