Frames? yes or no?

Question

I've put my site together using frames and I like the
navigation of it; thumbs at the bottom that when you click on any
indiviual one, a bigger image pops up in the central frame
http://www.owlphotography.com/travel_port/travel_portpage.htm
I'm new to this whole web design thing and now-after having
spent months putting together my site using frames-I'm told that
frames are "old school," looked down upon by other designers, and
if a website is made with frames then search engines can't find it.
do you think this is true? Is there an alternative to having
the same format that I have in my website but not use frames? Can I
do it using Dreamweaver?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:03:23 +0000 (UTC), "owl_t"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I've put my site together using frames and I like the
navigation of it; thumbs
>at the bottom that when you click on any indiviual one, a
bigger image pops up
>in the central frame
>
>
http://www.owlphotography.com/travel_port/travel_portpage.htm
>
Oh - and another thing - sorry ;-) your home page is rather
too large:
all those thumbnails at the bottom are about 22k each - x 20
that 440k
plus the main picture at 187k and total page 1.5M - it should
be much
much smaller.
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=http://www.owlphotography. com/travel_port/travel_portpage.htm
How did I quickly do this
I use Firefox with the development too
http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
http://en.www.mozilla.com/en/firefox/
Sorry to be negative - but you did ask !
Malcolm
~Malcolm N....
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