Using frames gives you the power to divide the reader's browser window into multiple panes. You can display a different HTML document in each. More importantly, you can control the display of one frame from another.

This allows you to create banners, menus, and button bars that don't scroll off the page. For example, you could create a frame for a logo at the top of the page and a frame for a button bar for navigation at the bottom. A thrid frame in the middle of the page would display the actual contents of the HTML documents. The top and bottom frame would never disappear from view.

There's one important thing to keep in mind -currently frames are only supported by Netsacpe 2.0 or higher and Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher. But there is a way around the older browser.