SE spidering single pages

[hexdj]

I am updating this website that I did not design and it was made with regular frames and also iFrame to load the contents that will show on the right side without having to reload the menu and the footer, all files are regular HTM.

My question is, how can I make it possible for search engines not to spider single pages like home.htm because when I go to the results of the SE and I click on that link that actually has the text that I looked up, it opens the HTM without menu and footer.

My goal is eventually make the whole site with PHP (which I am a newbie at), any other suggestions for now will be highly appreciated.

[encyclo]

You need the content pages spidered, not just the frameset - as you have seen, most spiders cope with framed pages reasonably well, but you need to detect when a page is viewed outside of its frame context and reload the page with the other frames around it.

A good starting point in the Force Many Pages Into Frames [webmasterworld.com] Javascript, in message #21 of the thread (by tedster).

[hexdj]

Thanks! really helpful thread!