Week 5 - Frames and Head Elements

1. Agenda
   1. Questions & Answers.
   2. Stuff to put in the HEAD of your document: META tags.
      1. Refresh; aka "client pull."
   3. Frames.
      1. The HTML tags.
         1. SRC
         2. borders
         3. scrolling
         4. margins
         5. noframes
      2. Targeting windows.
2. Interesting Sites
   1. WebActive
   2. ¤TMark
3. Inspirational Readings
4. Tech Support Readings
   1. HTML Help Frames Tutorials
   2. "Why Frames Suck (Most of the Time)", by Jacob Nielsen
   3. Frames are a Picnic, Jill Atkinson on WebMonkey
   4. Targetting Frames, Jill Atkinson on WebMonkey
5. Assignments
   1. Sketch out a layout for a page (or pages) using frames. Include META tags and NOFRAMES information.
   2. Think about your frames design. Could you have presented the same information without frames? Why or why not?

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Building Web Sites - ITP Fall 2000 - Mike Cosaboom, Instructor

mc39@acf2.nyu.edu