A Frameset is really nothing more than a container in
which content is displayed. It does not have any content
of its own although it may appear that it does. A
frameset simply displays other pages contained within
your site in the various parts of the frameset.
Let's take the example of a frameset with two
components ... down the left hand side and the other the
remainder of the page. Framesets used in this manner
would usually contain the "menu" in the left hand portion
and the "content" in the remainder. When one clicks on
one of the menu items, the browser will load the content
referred to in the hyperlink into the remainder.
To work on the content of the individual pages I usually
do the following:
1. create a webpage that lists the menu items ... let's
call it menu.htm,
2. in the left hand portion of the frameset, I insert an
Include Page (see Front Page help). The include page in
this case is the menu.htm page.
3. I then create content pages ... let's call these
content1.htm, content2. htm, etc.
4. I then create hyperlinks from the menu.htm include
page to the various content pages as appropriate.
Note: if you first open your frameset page and
subsequently open other pages, Front Page will load those
pages into the frameset for you (in this manner your
screen will mimic your finished website). After an edit
of say content1.htm you do a File | Save, Front Page will
save the content1.htm page even though it could be
construed that it is saving the frameset. You may find it
less confusing (after understanding the frameset as a
containter concept) to not open the frameset first before
working on your content pages (and even the menu page).
If you do this, you will just see the content (or menu)
without the frameset.
I hope this clears things up for you. You might also want
to consult Front Page help for more information on
framesets.
