Week 2

Read the online PDF file (old chapter 15 in the HTML 5th edition) book. Information on how to get this PDF is on page 25 of the 6th edition.  This chapter describes creating framesets.  Framesets are generally not supposed to be used on new sites due to accessibility issues.  However they can be used sparingly when there are no other alternatives.

Examples:

• http://www.ridgewater.net/mmdt1021/grades/index.htm  -  I framed the online grades because the grade pages are automatically generated from my gradebook software.  In order to provide instructions, I needed to frame the pages.
• http://www.schantzen.com  -  This is a site that is framed.  If the site was redone, it should not be framed.
• http://www.ridgewater.net/mmdt1021/samples/sp02site5/index.htm  - Example of a student web site created with frames.

Lab 2

This lab is to test your knowledge of being able to create a frameset.

Create a simple frameset.  One frame should contain a simple menu that goes to at least 3 pages.  Demonstrate that clicking on a menu item changes the contents of contents frame.  This would be similar to the website http://www.schantzen.com.