Re: frames compatibility

So then why would anyone use frames except for an intranet site?
Kate Pollara



----- Original Message -----
From: Elias Thienpont
To: hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: frames compatibility


NO! Absolutely NOT!

Search engines check and recheck web sites continuously, updating their
information, and indexing new additions.


At 20:49 11/28/2000 -0500, you wrote:

so does this mean that once you get listed you can add frames pages?
Kate Pollara



----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Wilson" <webgooru(at)gte.net>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>; "Lori Eldridge" <lorield(at)uswest.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: frames compatibility


> > Could someone please tell me which of the older browsers don't
> > support frames? I'm trying to talk a client out of using them and I
> > need some stats.
>
> Too many to mention, many early browsers were incapable.  The real problem
> is with search engine spidering of the website.
>
> Besides making the website a lot more confusing to manage and raising his
> costs, he needs to know that some search engines cannot and will not index
> or spider this websight.  See http://www.laisha.com/excite.html for
> background.   Excite & Lycos will not index frames.  Infoseek has trouble
> with frames.  There are probably more.
>
> When we first built our main website, we used frames and had a dickens of
a
> time getting it registered.  I found mention of the frames problem and
> converted the website to non-frame and we started showing up almost
> immediatly.  Our personal experience shows this is not a myth, we proved
it.
>
> Paul Wilson
> webgooru(at)gte.net
>
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