Re: Links to Pages within Frames

"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.62.0508082228260.11305@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Stevie D wrote:
>
>> Yes, it's called the Clueless User's Computer.
>>
>> It's all very well the browser having a certain function, but if the
>> piece of meat sat in front of it doesn't know about it, it's not a lot
>> of use...
>
> If every web page has to be a full-scale browser use tutorial, where
> do you ever find room for your substantive content?
>
> If they want to go to the top of the page and don't know they have a
> key that does it, they've still got a scrollbar, surely?

Yes - but if there's an easier way of laying out the page that doesn't
require the user to scroll up the page (either using a keystroke or the
mouse/touchpad) to return to the nav bar, then why not use it? I like sites
which use frames because they allow the navigation links to be visible
permanently without me having to go and find them when I need them. On a
reasonably high res screen (eg 1024x768), there's plenty of space for a nav
bar down one side, because you don't want your body page to be too wide
otherwise you end up with unreadably long lines of text. I usually embed the
whole of my body pages in a cell of a fixed-width table and then centralise
that in the available panel so the lines don't grow too long on a very
high-res screen.

> Oh well, it beats those bus doors that are labelled boldly "THIS IS
> NOT A DOOR".

I've not seen those signs. LOL.


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