7: Framing Your Pages in Java

Generate QR Code in Java 7: Framing Your Pages

I understand that most people don t want to lose viewers to another site when they create a link, but that s the nature of the Web If your site is designed well, you shouldn t have to worry about losing people Instead, you should show them around your informative site and then politely help guide them to other resources they may find of interest and let them go If you link to another site and target that link within your frames, you keep users captive and usually leave them annoyed with you for taking up valuable browser space and making it harder to navigate the site they ve followed your link to visit By displaying content from other sites within one or more of the frames in your site, you risk doing yourself far more harm than good If you insist on using frames when you link to another site, do so discretely by placing a small, narrow frame across the bottom of the screen or the left side not a wide band across the top, and certainly not more than one frame that still contains information from your site Not only is this rude and ugly, but some people have been sued by sites who charged that using frames when they linked misled visitors into thinking the content belonged to them when it didn t Another reason not to use frames when you link to someone else s site is that other sites use frames, too If you link a site that uses frames into a site that uses frames, you quickly create a mess of frames within frames that makes navigation confusing at best Not everyone knows you can get out of frames by right-clicking a link in Windows or clicking and holding a link on a Mac and choosing Open Frame in Separate Window Now that you know this trick, at least you can get out of a framed situation if you ever find yourself trapped in one

Sometimes, you may not want to save all the files at once To save an individual frame displayed in a frameset without saving all the other frames, place your cursor in any of the frames and choose File Save Frame just as you save any other individual page Dreamweaver saves only the file for the frame in which your cursor is located To save only the page that defines the frameset, make sure the entire frameset is selected (you can do this by clicking in the upper-most left corner of the Workspace), and then choose File Save Frameset If you have not selected the entire frameset, the Save Frameset option doesn t appear on the File menu Remember: This page doesn t display in any of the frames; it simply defines the entire display area, specifying which of the other pages displays in each frame, as well as the position and size of the frames As you continue to work on your frame page, remember that whenever you make a change in one of the content frames, you edit content in a different file from the one you started with (the frameset file) You may get confused as to which file you need to save when working in this manner Don t worry this is what confuses a lot of people about using frames in Dreamweaver When you edit the content in one of the frames, make sure that your cursor is still in that frame when you choose File Save Frame so that you save the page

that corresponds to the frame you are working on To be safe, you can always choose File Save All Frames in order to save all changes to all files in the frameset, including the frameset file itself The Save All command is also useful when you make changes to several of the frames and want to save all the changes with just one command