Is it very bad to use frames?

[bvahan5]

I use to make simple web sites with few frames: top, left, main, right

Is it very old-fashioned? Why they are not popular?

 

[vacunita]

Here read this for advantages and disadvantages:

http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles/framesnoframes.htm

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[Foamcow]

It's not bad per se, but often unnecessary. There are times when a framed site will work better for the user, but often the reasons for their use are misguided.

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[Aeros]

As with anything it depends on your application. Spiders generally choke on them so I dont use them for internet sites. Since I dont care about that for internal sites I will occasionaly use them for intranet sites.

 

[moltar]

I recommend avoiding frames if at all possible. The disadvantages FAR outweigh any advantages (especially when it comes to commercial websites). If it's being considered due to layout purposes, those considerations can probably be accomodated with configuring your HTML table layouts accordingly.

If you really need to present content from two or more different domains, you may want to look into using IFRAME instead of the old-fashioned frames.