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GoLive: Lesson 2 - Creating Frames

To add frames to the home page, click on the second tab, Frames, in the main work space and then the fourth Frames tab in the Palette. From here, drag the third frame set that divides the page into a narrow header and large body frame into the Frames window and change the border size to zero. Click in each frame to set details in the Frame Inspector and Frame Set Inspector (click on the grey bar between the components of the frame to select the latter) such as frame size (80 pixels), scrolling (no), BorderSize (0) and BorderFrame (no); name the top and bottom frames head and body respectively.

Next, link the frames to relevant files, which will be edited in GoLive as we add images and text to our site. For the head frame, click in the Frame Inspector and type in the URL header.html, with home.html being the URL for the body frame. Finally, save the frameset by going to File, Save Frameset and give it the name default.html in the root folder. After this, click in each of the two frames and save the top one as header.html and the bottom one as home.html.

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