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I just finished two websites than have frames. Thinking it would present a nice interface to the visitor, the sites have a nice left bar and a top bar that don’t scroll while rolling the mouse wheel. A menu on the left allows to change the main text.

This is nice but the method has a big disadvantage, SEO speaking. The sites have many ‘main body’ pages and there are all indexed in Google. Unfortunately when ‘googling’ and finding one of these pages prevents from viewing the other pages of the site, as there is no menu displayed. The left bar menu is on the main page containing the frame and therefore no menu is shown.

An alternative would have to provide a link on the top saying: “If you landed here, click to go to the main page of the site”. Or simply a “Homepage” link.

I don’t like it that way, so I decided to rewrite the sites, using an array instead of the frame. It will eventually take a lot more time than inserting the ‘Homepage’ link, but will be more profitable in the long term. The search engines will provide all pages with a top bar and a left menu, and the visitor will have a better feeling than landing on the ‘unframed’ text pages.

See by yourself one of the sites: www.biodiesel.1cyu.com