ok, what a frameset does is creates a "holding" document for your other documents, in your case your menu and biography pages. Your "framset document" is the one I wrote as an example, then you have separate html documents for the menu and biographys. You CANNOT put frames (framesets) in a table. you can put tables in frames.
Code:
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| names here | |
| | biographies here |
| | |
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so the browser displays the frameset, which tells the browser to show the two separate documents in the two frames.
You can't have
information... blah blah
start frames
the frameset is the WHOLE document.
titanium_geek