converting my site to frames

[lilolad]

Hi,
I've got a site www.knickersandnaughties.com (ann summers style shopping site), which currently doesn't use frames.
I'm thinking that I would like it to start using frames, so that the header info and navigation are always visible.

Could anyone tell me if this is a straight forward thing to do in Actinic, or am I better off starting from scratch and bringing in the products into a new site?

Many thanks for all your help in advance,

Matt

[webyourbusiness]

Don't do it.

Frames are a pain in the rear for search engine spiders - you might as well stop investing in your online store - we are about to throw it all away.

regards

Greg Hewitt-Long

[pinbrook]

I agree with Greg.

Frames are a pain. Choose one of the layouts that place a menu system down the left hand side, (clean layouts). you get the navigation on all apges without the hassle and drawbacks of frames

[lilolad]

Thanks for that,
I havn't used frames for that exact reason.

But the issue is that some of my html pages are getting pretty big (some are 100kb without the images) and I wanted to have a pull-out menu to all my product sections. The pull-out menu would add an extra 30kb to each of the html pages.

I was thinking that by using frames the navigation menu on the left frame would only load the once.

hmm....I don't know what to do now. I thought frames would be the answer, but from your replies, it doesn't sound like it.

I'll have to re-think what to do. Thanks again,

Matt

[Darren B]

If you looking for menus, try Normans approach.

you should find the info at this thread

http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1862
or this one
http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1813
I use it on my site if you want to have a look

Cheers
Darren:)