Some people say that framed sites, if done properly, have no problems in getting good rankings in search engines.

Others claim that if search engine optimization is important to you, never use frames.

In my opinion, truth lies somewhere in between. Yes, use of frames does throw up a few issues when it comes to getting good rankings in search engines which don't understand frames.

Hence, when you are designing a new site, I would recommend that you avoid using frames, unless you have a specific reason for doing so.

However, if you already have a site which uses frames, all is not lost. You can still get good rankings in search engines even though you have used frames.

Furthermore, using frames also has its own advantages when it comes to search engine placement, as we shall later on.

This article assumes that you have a working knowledge of frames. For more information on frames, go to http://www.webreference.com/dev/frames/

In case your site uses frames, key to getting good rankings lies in using NOFRAMES tag. The NOFRAMES tag is intended to help framed web sites display some content for those people who are using browsers which don't understand frames.

The search engines which don't understand frames also look at NOFRAMES tag. Hence, if you are using frames, you need to add content to NOFRAMES tag.

What you should do is to add a complete web page within NOFRAMES tag. Ensure that this page repeats important keywords for your site a number of times.

Also, in order to ensure that content within NOFRAMES tag is as prominent as possible to search engines, you should put NOFRAMES tag right after FRAMESET tag.

However, when analysing overall system performance, CPU speed comes second to having sufficient physical memory (RAM) to run these complex applications.

While many of today’s computers have enough RAM to store a small library, modern software and media files do require a lot of memory consuming resources.

Memory-related problems can cause delays and glitches that can drastically hamper software being used with, for example, noticeable slowing down of movies (or delays in playback)and games.

By optimizing all your system settings and by monitoring resource usage more carefully, these problems can be avoided, resulting in a smoother and more stable gaming experience.

Paging Files and Performance:

In comparison to minute integrated circuitry of a RAM Chip, a mechanical hard drive is not very fast. The read/write speed of hard drive is slower than RAM and technology of former is not designed toward accessing small pieces of data at a time.

When your computer runs out of physical memory, Windows will use your hard drive to store information that it cannot place in RAM.

It will indiscriminately create what is called virtual memory or a paging file (or a swap file) that stores data from RAM that hasn’t been used recently to load up and manage more recent applications.

This slows down your hard drive and eventually may lead to a system crash.

The greater number of (or more power-hungry) applications running, more RAM is required and larger paging files may be.

The easiest solution to this problem and perhaps most expensive is to upgrade your RAM. There are, however, less expensive solutions that will greatly enhance your PC memory.