Alternatives to Frames

Maintaining navigation bars and menus on your site often turns into a full-time job. That's why so many people were originally attracted to frames in the first place. But as their charm (the frames, not the people) wore off, Web designers started looking for other options. Fortunately, FrontPage has got you covered and is ready to help you out with two tools that you'll learn about later in this book:

• FrontPage Link Bars. Let FrontPage do your work. Link bars are site menus and navigation links that FrontPage creates and updates for you. As you'll see when you read more about site navigation in Tutorial 10 (Section 10.4.1), you have to set up a navigation structure for link bars to function properly, but after that, FrontPage does all the work.

• Included Content. This special feature lets you take content from one page and include it within another or many other pages. Because you edit this content only on its original page, included content is a great way to create one navigation menu that you can insert on many pages. Make a change once on the original page, and FrontPage automatically updates all other pages that "include" this menu content. Section 11.3 shows you all the details.