Most of the time, I've found that the usability objectives that clients want to achieve with frames can be done with other means. Remember too, that if you're a site where lots of your visitors are coming from AOL, that many of them will not even be able to experience the feature. One final point on the appropriate use of technology in design. Just as with any other area, there are certain conventions that you should only violate if you have a particular purpose for doing so, and are sure about the result that you will obtain. One of the most common failures to observe this is in setting colors for type that mimic the standard colors for links.
Most people expect something that is green or blue and underlined on a Web page to be a link.
They expect something that is magenta to be a link that they've visited. I'd stay away from those colors for anything else on your site. Copyright 1998 by Bock Information Group, Inc .