Boot Camp

Frames
tors. However, in some websites still in use by various employers, in the form of content
management systems, frames are still in use.
Frames usage made sense when internet connection speeds were much slower. You could
use a frameset where one frame displayed your banner segment, another our navigation
segment, and a third your footer segment – and kept the same content of these three
frames displayed whenever the content segment frame was updated. Only the content
frame changed, which made web page loading faster.
Server-side includes now in use do this same thing, but allowing you to create separate
files for your banner segment, navigation segment, footer segment, and repeating sidebar
segments, and linking those files to your main web page where you change only the content.
You can learn more about this when you study the Web languages that support them,
but HTML/XHTML does not go this far.
In frames you use one main page and swap parts for other pages. Each coded page needs
all head section information, however.
Frameset Page
Your main frames page, index.html, is known as a Frameset page in frames use. It is the
pager where you set the “structure” of how many frames will load into it, and it uses
instead of tags.
This frameset page also requires to use the frameset doctype:
In the frameset you create links to separate pages that will be opened inside the frameset,
such as your banner, nav, guts, and footer pages. Each of these web pages needs to use the
standard doctype and body tags so that they display properly. Only the frameset page uses
the frameset doctype and frameset tags in order to pull in these other pages for viewing.
The pages that are pulled in need to be named so that you can direct the frameset where
the file opening locations will be.
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