RE: UKNM: to the website designers out there

[Robert Hamilton]

Hi all,


I think that there's another issue: it's not that frames are, per se, a bad thing, simply that very often

they are badly used. I've seen the scenario below a few times, in various organisations:


Client: We're not happy with the navigation - it's not clear enough

Agency: Erm...Don't worry - we'll use (drum roll) FRAMES to sort it out!


Agency then 'framifies' the site, by nailing a frameset onto their original design.


There's a backlash against frames that don't work - and rightly so!


BTW I'm not really a web designer either!


R


On 01 May 1998 14:55,

ross [dot] sleightbmpinteraction [dot] com

 [SMTP:

ross [dot] sleightbmpinteraction [dot] com

] wrote:

> 70% + of UK users have access to frames compatible browsers (NOP).

> 

> Lowest common denominator is not always the best way to start designing.

> 

> 

> No contest imho (as long as you are prepared to do a text version of the

> site if really content heavy and don't use frames 'just for the sake of

> it'.)

> 

> But I'm not a web designer - so disagree at will!

> 

> Ross

> 

> > -----Original Message-----

>

> From: Lee Atkinson [SMTP:L [dot] Atkinsonharleywest [dot] co [dot] uk]

> > Sent:	01 May 1998 09:53

>

> To: 'uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com'

> > Subject:	UKNM: to the website designers out there

> > 

> > Hi there,

> > 

> > My boss has just strolled in and said, " Right lads, from now on you

> > aren't to use frames anymore because there is a backlash to using them

> > within the industry"

> > 

> > and that was that.

> > 

> > any thoughts?

> > 

> > Lee Atkinson



Robert Hamilton


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