[Fozzie]

My site www.fuchsiamagic.com uses frames. If you go straight to this url, it works OK. However, sometimes search engines pick up the central page of this frame which you can go to directly at www.fuchsiamagic.com/fuchsias/main.htm The problem with this is that there is no menu any more and people leave the site because they don't know where else to go.

If I put a hyperlink on the main.htm page pointing back to www.fuchsiamagic.com, it works fine, BUT, if someone clicks on that link when the frames page is displayed correctly, you get a frame within a frame! What am I doing wrong?

[sub]

Originally Posted by Fozzie

What am I doing wrong?

Using Frames

[pgo]

Originally Posted by Fozzie

What am I doing wrong?

Using frames.

[Fozzie]

<quote>Using frames.</quote>
OK fair enough, but other sites use them and they work OK. I will probably get rid of them, but I just wanted an answer.

[finbarr]

try putting a script in the head of the page that doesnt allow the main content frame to load without the other frames...

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
if (self==top) {self.location.replace("your main page url")}
//-->
</script>

cant guarantee that piece of script but there are others on here who will I'm sure

[LadynRed]

OK fair enough, but other sites use them and they work OK.

Maybe.. maybe not. They will suffer from the same problem you have if they include zero navigation in the content frames. This is just one reason why frames are evil.. there are more, one of which being the weight and page load times - you're not loading 1 page, you're loading multiple pages.

[the_boss]

There is absolutely no need to use frames.
The same can be achieved through CSS. God I love CSS!