do I need a no frame site?

[little_lisa]

I have redesigned my site to use frames.
Do I really need to have a site without frames? What sort of percentage of people will not be able to view a framed site?
Is it correct that internet explorer will be able to view frames?
I assume search engines will view content on every individual page, same as in a no frame site?

Thanx
Lisa

[Charles]

While frames are problematic, there's no real need to provide a frame free option. Even non-graphical browsers support frames in a fashion. However...

1) As frames are subject to being separated from their frameset it's a good idea to make sure that each frame can stand on its own.

2) It is a priority one guideline (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/)) to "Title each frame to facilitate frame identification and navigation." Priority one is something that you must do.

3) It is a priority two guideline to "Describe the purpose of frames and how frames relate to each other if it is not obvious by frame titles alone." Priority two is something that you should do.

4) See http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#frames for a detailed discussion of how to make your frameset work in all browsers.

[sciguyryan]

h,


well, frames are accepted by IE6 so, why notuse them?The only problem is that some browsers don't accept them so, if you really wish for all to see your site you could use a browser detection and redirection script to do that...




hope that helped.