Friday, October 21, 2005

Frames Are Never the Answer

I've been using the basic version of Blackboard (online course software) at my day job, and I just want to say -- in case any Blackboard execs happen to stumble across this post -- frames on web sites are never the answer little camper!.

Oh sure, it seems like a good idea -- you get easy persistant navigation, and you can trap other pages within your frame set but a) you lose the ability to book mark pages (unless you're careful, which Blackboard is not) and b) sites were not meant to be trapped within frame sets. THey look like crap, they're hard to navigate and oh, you can't bookmark them.

So remember folks, if someone ask you if you want frames ... you say no!

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