We don't agree with the major browser distributors over their choice of colours for either a background, or links. We also believe that the colour red is a far more useful, attractive, and noticeable colour to signify links from page to page, unless the link has been used before, in which case we believe that the default dull purple will do nicely, thank you. Additionally, ALIA's corporate colours are red, grey and white, which allows us to reinforce this through our choice of colors. By choosing to use lowercase throughout the site, no ambiguity surfaces, and by using longer filenames, we avoid having to translate the filename to try to understand the content. In the opinion of typesetters, designers and the publishing industry, one space is the way to go.
Frames are a complete waste of effort - unfortunately.
They are non-intuitive and create a variety of difficulties for many users. So therefore we avoid them. We would sincerely LOVE to use them if we could make navigation simple. Cascading style sheets were meant to be the saviours of web designers - but fail in delivery. Icons as bullet points are mostly redundant, and we avoid their use wherever possible.