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Now the most common use of frames at least in my experience is to use them as navigation elements or navigation aids. You create a set of frames and then over to the left you'll have one frame containing a navigation bar and another frame over to the right to display the main content pages. However in many cases you can create a web page without frames that will achieve the same goals as using frames. For example if you want a navigation bar to appear on the left side of your page you can set up an ap div tag, place a Fireworks generated navigation system that could even be a library element that gets updated automatically whenever you make changes to that library element and all the pages that use that navigation bar or you could use a template. And the template part of the template is that navigation element over to the left and this way Dreamweaver helps you to create multiple pages that use the very same layout and the same navigation system. The Dreamweaver documentation provides a very good example of a page design with a frame like layout that doesn't use frames. Another reason not to use frames is a poorly designed site will use frames unnecessarily such as a frameset that reloads the contents of navigation frames every time the visitor click a navigation button. This doesn't happen if you go to templates or library elements. When frames are used well for example to keep navigation control static in one frame while allowing the contents of another frame to change. They can be very useful and easy to set up and maintain. I should also point out however that not all browsers provide good frame support and frames may be difficult for visitors with disabilities so if you do use frames always provide a no frame section in your frameset for visitors who can't view them. For more information on how to set up these no frames section do a search in the Dreamweaver help under no frames that's N-O F-R-A-M-E-S no spaces. You might also provide explicit link to a frameless version of the site. And that will conclude this section of the tutorial on using frames. Let me now move on to the next section of the tutorial on site management where I cover how to safely move, rename and delete files in the files window without causing linking problems within your Dreamweaver sites. How to check links, how to check and fix external links and much, much more.