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Richard,
There is nothing wrong with Peter's answers, I'm just adding my tw cents. My first site was based on frames, but it turned out to be a huge headache to support. I still like using frames, but I have a hard time justifying it's use. But I had the same need as you.
As Peter suggested, you can load multiple frames with a single link using Javascript. The way I did it was to first create a Javascript wrapper for each of my pages. For example, the following Javascript functions are for opening a toolbar, targeted to the "toolbar" frame, and a main page, targeted to the "main" frame.
function Top_Toolbar() {
TT=window.open('toolbar.html','toolbar',
'toolbar,location,directories,menubar,resizable,scrollbars,status');
TT.document.close();
}
function Top_Main() {
TM=window.open('main.html','main',
'toolbar,location,directories,menubar,resizable,scrollbars,status');
TM.document.close();
}
Then from my web page, I could simply use a link that looked like the following:
Back To The Beginning
The above example is from a two framed setup, but you can have as many frames as you want as long as you target them properly. If you have a page that needs to be opened in a different frame, depending on the circumstances, you could modify the wrappers and pass the target information as a parameter.
If you put the Javascript wrappers in a separate file, and source it from all of your pages, you only have one place to keep track of your wrappers.
In the end, I didn't find any real advantage to using frames, so I modified it. I switched over to a
