Navigating With Frames

Although most browsers nowadays can handle frames with no problems, just in case you are using one that doesn't, here are some tips. Frames divide Web pages into multiple regions, scrollable or non-scrollable, dependent upon the designer's layout. Each region can be given an individual URL, so it's possible to see several pages on your screen all at once!

1. HOW THE BACK BUTTON WORKS WITH FRAMES
As you may know, the Back Button lets you review pages in The Capitalist Pig Web site that you've just visited by recalling the URL of an entire screen or frameset. It doesn't, however, call up the URL of the last frame you viewed. So, if you press the Back Button when you simply want to revisit a previously chosen frame, you'll find yourself further back than you meant to be.

2. GOING BACK INSIDE A FRAME
Windows and Unix users can go back one frame by positioning your cursor inside the frame and clicking the right mouse button. A pop-up menu will appear. Choose "Back in Frame", and the frame will fill with the information that last appeared in that frame. Repeating the process will step you back through everything you viewed in that frame in reverse order. Macintosh users, position your cursor inside the frame that originally displayed the information you're seeking and hold down the mouse button to get the pop-up menu.

It's also possible that you'll start out in a frame and follow a link to a window designed without frames. In this case, the frames you've been seeing will disappear. Now, pressing the Back button will lead you back to the last framed page.

3. BOOKMARKING A FRAME
To create a bookmark, position your cursor over the link you'd like to bookmark and hold down the mouse button. When the pop-up menu appears, choose 'Add bookmark for this link'. Please note that if you choose to create a bookmark for the entire page, it will bookmark the URL for the original frameset, which may not be the bookmark you meant to choose.