Framing Redirection - Building Your Own Website

After a week's desitraction, back onto building your own website and continuing the look at Redirecting A Website.

In this one, in one way or another the visitor remains on the site they typed in, but is instead shown an alternative site using frames. This can also be done in two ways.

First, framing within the code. You put onto the website a piece of code that makes a 'window' on the page. This can be 100% of the height and width and allows the user to see the target website as if it's your own.

The second is through the hosts, using similar processes to above.

With framing, you are usually left in full control of the page's title, description and other meta tags (we'll come back to these in Search Engine Optimisation). But the search engines will ignore the content of the frame, although I have seen Google following the frame link as though it was a normal hyperlink. It is possible to give alternative text if you are coding the frame, we'll come back to that when appropriate.

The technology behind framing is the same as is often used on web pages. For example, look at my Compare Mortgage Rates website and you will see on the home page an application form. This is delivered via a special type of frame, called an I-Frame, but they are all the same in the end. But I-Frames can be included in part of a non-framed page.