Frames are a common feature of many websites. Framing enables the Web author to divide the display into multiple sections. Each section is called a frame. Each frame can contain material from different web pages. Frames provide greater flexibility in web page construction. Some designers, however, avoid using frames because current browsers do not support them evenly.

Frames have several uses. One important use of frames is to allow broader access and navigation of websites. Frames can pull information from many different websites and display them on a single page. This saves time from having to look up each website individually. A user may access a wide variety of information from a single web page by using frames. Another advantage of frames is the multiple portal concept. Frames can display multiple web portals simultaneously. Multiple portals aid in attracting and holding larger audiences to a website.

Frames have...