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To create frames you must create the page that contains the frames (i.e. is the frameset and will control the frames that the other pages will load into. This will be the page you want to open to see your frames). To do this you need to use the HTML editing feature of Frontpage express (accessible by clicking view -> HTML.. - for more on this click here) What you need to do is copy and paste the following sets of code before a HTML element written as </head> If you want to create a frameset with 2 frames divided vertically like this example
Create the 2 pages that will load into the 2 frames (we've called them left.htm and right.htm here but you can use what ever name you want. Now open a new normal page Copy the following code. It sets the left frame window with a width of 150 pixels <frameset cols="150,*"> Change the areas in red to the values you want. The first line sets the width of each frame. Here the left frame is set at 150 pixels. The * is simply indicates the right frame will take up the rest of the browser window (you can do it the otherway round if you The next 2 lines determine the name of each of the frame (here left and right) which you need to use for targeting links (see our other frames page for more on this) and the name of the first page that will load into them (we used "left.htm" and "right.htm" but you can simply change the name as needed The 2nd and 3rd last lines are displayed in a noframes browser window. We'll discuss this below. When you've done your HTML changes and close the HTML editing box, you won't see your frames !!!! Why ? Well Frontpage express isn't just incapable of editing frames directly, it can't display them either!!! All you'll see is the message for no frames browsers.(Edit this as you choose but please edit the "Click here for no frames version" link - it is currently targeted at a file called noframe.htm) To check your frames out you'll need to save your page and view it in a browser. Commonest error is that you' haven't targeted the correct page to open up in each frame. Making a vertical divided frame is easy too like this
As before, create the 2 pages that will load into the 2 frames (we've called them top.htm and bottom.htm here but you can use what ever name you want. Now open a new normal page Copy the following code. It sets the top frame window with a height of 150 pixels <frameset rows="150,*"> Just change the values in red as described in the vertical example above (except left & right are replaced by top & bottom) Here is the code for a 3 frame frameset with a 200 pixel top frame and a lower left frame with a width of 150 pixels
As before, create the 3 pages that will load into each of the 3 frames of the frame set (we've called them top.htm, left.htm and right.htm here but you can use what ever name you want.) Now open a new normal page Copy the following code. It sets the left frame window with a width of 150 pixels <frameset rows="200,*"> Change the areas in red to the values you want as before. There are lots more to know about using frames. If you've not done so check out our page describing how frames operate and how to link between them For the more adventurous, to make more tweaks to your frameset check out our HTML frames guide 
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