Why is site framed?

People use framed sites for a number of reasons: ease in navigation, uniform appearance throughout a site, keeping your company name front-and-center, and so on. In other words, there is probably a reason why you wanted to display pages on your site (file1.html, file2.html, file3.html) within frames designated in "framing" page. Your search engine entries, however, will not keep pages in this configuration--remember that robot didn't do frames, so search engine database knows nothing of frames now either. That means hyperlink created in search engine listing will load only individual page (file2.html), and not put it in its overall context. That's not what you wanted, or you would have designed site that way!

Loading page into frames

In order to force user's browser to load a given page into framed environment that you wanted, you must employ some JavaScript sleight-of-hand. Specifically, you need to make each page aware that it wants to load only within frames that you have designed. This is a two-step process that involves placing some JavaScript code in each page on site.

Individual pages

For each of individual pages, you need to add an awareness whether they are loaded into a frame, or sitting by themselves as an individual document in browser window. This is accomplished by adding following JavaScript to page, typically within HEAD section:

Figure 9--JavaScript for individual pages

You will replace some of parameters here with names more appropriate to your situation:

replace "frameset.html" with name of page on your site that has tags in it replace "right" with name of frame on frameset page into which you want to load current page Let's implement this for page "page1.html", which we want loaded into frame named "right" that is defined in framing page "index.html". Remember to add your meta tags and give page a meaningful title. Note substitutions referenced above.