It was clearly a case of feature-driven design. Netscape was going to show off the capabilities and damn the consequences. Netscape's frame-based home page design Web authors are currently intoxicated with the growing list of features. Tables, frames, Java, and VRML are all useful technologies when used in moderation and used for a purpose. The use of technological features for the sake of using features has led to many ugly Web pages.
Restraint is the best rule of thumb.