Frameset name and index.html

Question

Hi:
I am new student taking Dreamweaver 8 at local college. We
have been working on frames and I am so very confused. I have read
via other resources that one should save a frameset as index.html.
The instructor did not offer this information, allowing us to think
we should have frameset page and an index page.
Today, we had hands on mid term and we were instructed to
make a frameset consisting only of 2 frames, which sounded easy
enough...we were asked to name the frameset by a particular name
and then to dowload an index.html. We were then asked to insert
navigation bar on frame page, which had no other content... I am so
confused now...Most of us did not finish the exam. Please, please
help me....Should the frameset name be index.html? Thank you so
much.

Answer 1

> We have been working on frames and I am so very
confused.
Apparently so is your teacher. This is inexcusable. Frames
are SOOO 90's.
There are MANY reasons not to use them and not to teach them.
Tell your
teacher I said so. In case he/she wants to do some reading,
go here -
As far as I know, the most comprehensive discussions of
frames and their
potential problems can be found on these two links -
http://apptools.com/rants/framesevil.php
http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/frames/
> I have read via other resources that one
> should save a frameset as index.html.
If you want the frameset to load when someone first comes
into your domain
with
http://www.example.com, then you
would name it with the default
filename prescribed by your host - while that *may* be
"index.html" it might
also be index.htm, or default.htm, or home.htm, or...
> The instructor did not offer this
> information, allowing us to think we should have
frameset page and an
> index
> page.
It would also be possible to have that as well. Thus, the
initial page that
loads when you enter the site is NOT a framed page.
> we were asked to name
> the frameset by a particular name and then to dowload an
index.html
Download? You mean you had to GET a file from the server? Or
did you mean
to UPLOAD something to the server? You can see that you have
confused me,
too....
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"nettynora" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
> Hi:
>
> I am new student taking Dreamweaver 8 at local college.
We have been
> working
> on frames and I am so very confused. I have read via
other resources that
> one
> should save a frameset as index.html. The instructor did
not offer this
> information, allowing us to think we should have
frameset page and an
> index
> page.
>
> Today, we had hands on mid term and we were instructed
to make a frameset
> consisting only of 2 frames, which sounded easy
enough...we were asked to
> name
> the frameset by a particular name and then to dowload an
index.html. We
> were
> then asked to insert navigation bar on frame page, which
had no other
> content... I am so confused now...Most of us did not
finish the exam.
> Please,
> please help me....Should the frameset name be
index.html? Thank you so
> much.
>