Serving Creativity

Once the ergonomic issues (printing, bookmarks, etc.) are solved or deemed not essential, frames can definitely be used to design creative sites. Only two frames are needed to create this type of page with quite an interesting layout.



Figure 2: You can obtain this result with just two frames

Start by creating your complete background image. Divide it vertically into two parts and write down their exact sizes. Next, create two HTML pages. One will use the left part as its background, and the other the right part. Here is the result you should obtain:



Figure 3: The two pages with their background images

By now, you have probably begun to understand. All you need to do now is to use these pages in two frames, ensuring that you apply the exact image dimensions you wrote down. Just make sure that the left frame uses a fixed size. As the frame borders are hidden, the two images join together perfectly.