Getting Rid of Frames

How do I do this in Front Page?

[fmmk]

If I design my website using Microsoft Frontpage, and was recommended to get rid of my use of frames, is there a way to do this if you use Frontpage?

[bill]

There's no automatic way to do this in FP. You would simply have to design your site without frames. If you have an existing site you can copy and paste into a new site. If you were using the frames for navigation bars then you would need to remake that part of the page.

I would suggest you read up about FP's Include Page component. You can make your navigation bars in the Include Page and then add them to all your pages.

[fmmk]

If you cannot use Frontpage to make a website without frames, what software should I buy to create my pages
then?

[Symbios]

In the long run you would be better off learning how to code html using a good text editor, also if you learnt a little php you would be able to quickly convert frames sites to flat sites by using php includes.

Do a search on a search engine for html tutorials there's lots of good ones out there and all of the ones I've seen are free.

[fmmk]

Do you all agree that search engines hate frames?
I have pretty good search engine rankings,however, someone suggested I would have much better rankings if I didn't use frames.
I don't have any clue how to do this-do know some html code but Frontpage really helps me out.

[oilman]

>>Do you all agree that search engines hate frames?

no - I don't - I see framed sites doing well all over the place

FrontPage can be used just fine to create a site without frames - what bill is saying is that there is nothing that will take a framed site and convert it to a non framed site just by the click of a button. To convert a framed to non framed site you'll have to include the navigation into the regular page code by hand - FP is fine for this.

[fmmk]

Thank you-I am truly a novice!:)

[Symbios]

>>Do you all agree that search engines hate frames?

The main page gets indexed and cached ok but the framed pages do not, that is the problem.

[bill]

Here's a thread that enlightened me about frames:
Frames Suck ...why won't they listen? [webmasterworld.com]