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why frames and layers are bad

When I get time, I'll come back and add to this. Just a few reasons off the top of my head:

Either your site won't get ranked at all by search engines as they won't see your content beyond your Frameset, or if they *do* see your content, they'll list pages directly and people will enter your site in a frame page of content - ie, without your frameset pages (such as navigation) around it. Very disorientating!

Printing.. default of most browsers is to print every frame on a separate sheet of paper, not "as laid out on screen". I'm sure we've all experienced this, and it's very annoying.