Reasons for not using frames

[Raven_Writer]

I know atleast 20% of the all the FIRST robotics team websites use frames, and they make editing, adding, deleting, etc... stuff easy. But there are major side effects to using them.

1. They are not browser friendly. Mozilla, Netscape, and possibly others (like CompuServe for sure) don't handle them easily. (Thanks to Gadget for announcing the "they are not browser friendly" comment)

2. A big mess. Take team 5's site for an example. Before I had the menu that's on it now, the frames destroyed the other menu basically. Sure, it was a drop-down, but the code for it was basically useless. If you want a nice, clean site, use non-frames (or atleast have an option for the user wanting to view a frames or non-frames site). My poetry site is made without frames, and easy to browse (it should be anyways, it's only 4 pages). Yes, frames can make your site load faster (depending on where your server is, and a few other things), but sooner or later, it'll slow down your site to a hault.

3. Annoying. If you think a next door neighbor with his music blaring at 2 am while you are trying to sleep is annoying, try this. Frames can make images seem distorted, text become wrapped (which is bad sometimes). Even if a high-class website designer did a site in frames, it would still look the same as if a 5-year old internet newbie did one.

4. Take over the screen for small computers [Credit to Joseph M]

More to be added soon, as soon as I can think of more reasons.

[Note: All facts are not proven, but most are reliable to be true. These are my opinions. Flame if you want]