Why does most website don't use frame & what do u guys use to write webpage ?

[Superwormy]

Frames are horrible, they're difficult to work with many times, often times a bad hack to make things easier for the designer, and search engines have lots of difficulty with them as well.

I use Dreamweaver and Homesite

 

[rh71]

Don't forget that frames don't have to have visible borders and I find that if used that way, it's fine. I tend to keep a uniform look by re-loading the same menus/headers instead of keeping frames because of simplicity. Basically all you have to do is have the same snippet of code for each page and add the content in another part of the body. Kind of got used to it with "includes" in ColdFusion. And TABLES are still key.

Speaking of CF, I "grew up" with it so I use CFStudio / Homesite+ and it's a great Editor/WYSIWYG-in-one. It also allows remote development as in direct editing through RDS/FTP (DreamweaverMX has taken this on with the sunset of CFStudio). Can't beat it.

As far as CSS goes, I find some of the cross-browser incompatibility to be more of a nuisance than anything. Maybe if I become more well-versed with it, I'll find the majority of what works across browsers and what doesn't, but the time isn't right.

 

[xirtam]

It's typically a bad practice to use frames. That's why I try to stay away from them. It messes with the way the history works, and it's also harder to control layout.

Used properly, they are seldomly, yet sometimes, useful for the right job.

And I use notepad/emacs.

 

[jjones]

Frames are okay when used appropriately; which means rarely. Many sites that use frames do not need them but frames do have their uses.

One of the most important thing about CSS from a web designers standpoint is you can globally make changes to a site by making a minor editing change in your stylesheet; primarily CSS gives you a standard for use throughout your website and can make designing a site go along more smoothly. Some of the more advanced CSS functions as in CSS 2 do not yet have cross browser compatibility so you are best sticking with the CSS 1 standard.

For site design I mostly use PHPed and sometimes EditPad Pro for quick editing jobs. This is after I do the initial site layouts in Corel Photopaint (most people use Photoshop but I prefer Photopaint).