Bolotomus - 7:25 am on Jul 30, 2001 (gmt 0)

I wouldn't worry about it. I don't think SEs penalize frames outright. But they create weird problems as people will find your frame pages without finding the framesource page.

I manage a very large site (2000+ pages) which also contains one small framed area. Why? Because that one area needs frames! I generally don't like frames, but when you gotta have 'em, you gotta have 'em.

That site is certainly not penalized. It ranks very highly in its category.

Bolot