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When to Use Tables and Frames

Unlike in traditional graphic design, you can't just start slapping down your page elements on a blank Dreamweaver page. You need something to control your layoutsome containers on your page to hold those page elements. In Chapter 6, you learned about the latest (and best) way to lay out web pages: create layers. Another approach to page layout is to use tables. You can also use tables and layers together.

Regardless of whether you use tables or layers (or tables and layers together), the pages that you build can be contained within a frameset. A frameset allows you to display multiple web pages in a browser window at once, which can be useful for glossaries, FAQs, or indexes, for instance. Framesets are an older technology, and as useful as they can sometimes be, they present some search engine and browser compatibility issues you'll need to watch out for, which we'll talk about later.