Surfing the web you will encounter frames on numerous occasions. Generally frames are used for navigation systems, to allow a menu to remain on one part of the window whilst looking at different pages of content in the main window.

When you divide your document into frames you must name each frame and decide which page to display in which frame. This is called the source. Then, when you are creating links, you must specify a target, i.e. which frame the link document will be displayed in.

You are going to create a frameset to look like the following.

• Select the Frames option

• Split your document into two

• Choose Windows -> Others -> Frames or press Shift + F2

• Name the left frame menu and the large frame main

• Set the source document for menu to be menu.htm

• Create a file called page1.htm

• Set the source document for main to be page1.htm

• Change all your links targets set to Main

• Preview and save your frameset as frame.htm

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