Yet Another Way to Divide Up The Screen. Frames have a controversial status. Advantages Allow parts of page to remain static while other parts scroll. Can unify documents and items that remain on different servers. For example, keeps your frame navigation items on the screen while you display graphic or document on different server.
Frames can be more difficult to navigate.
Users cannot bookmark individual pages nested within a framed document. It decrease the size of the screen displayed to the user. Click here for an example of a frame. Click here for another example. Here is an example of a real example.