I see a lot of people here do not recommend using frames. I would like to get a better understanding of why. Are frames just an old method of accomplishing seperation in a web page that can now be done with CSS? Do people recommend against having a section of your page stay static while the rest of the page is enabled to scroll and have different content? I am learning CSS and seem to be struggling to accomplish the same effect that i can easily get using frames. It then dawned on me that it may be the design and layout of a site using frames that people are recommending against as opposed to the technology used to accomplish it. I guess I am asking if the adversion to using Frames is due to layout issues? I hope not seeing as i am creating a site with CSS that acts like it is using frames.
Michael has some good points in his article. Personally, I think the orphan problem, as well as the question of 'what's this page's link?' are the big problems with frames. So, it's not (simply) a layout issue. Heck, feel free to use divs and the like to emulate frames, just try to stay away from frames for the two major issues above.