Is it a website with frames and framesets well designed?

Question

I'm working on a webpage and I'm using frames. I'd like to make it using tables, but I don't know how to implement each part of the frame into a table.

So, my question is, is it well designed? If not, how can I improve it?

Here is the code of my page:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
        <title>
            Prueba
        </title>
    </head>
    <frameset rows="56px, *, 50px" border="0" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO">
        <frame class="header" src="header.html">
        <frameset cols="450px, *" border="0" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO">
            <frameset rows="*,150px" border="0" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO">
                <frame class="frame1" scrolling="auto" src="search_results.html">
                <frame class="frame2" scrolling="no" src="info.html">
            </frameset>
            <frame class="frame3" scrolling="no" src="map.html">
        </frameset>
        <frame class="footer" scrolling="no" src="footer.html">
    </frameset>
</html>

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1203068/why-should-i-not-use-html-frames — Taz, May 14 '12 at 18:00
@ŠimeVidas No one. I see them the best way to do what I have to do. The problem when the frames must interact between them. I don't know how to do that. — Garmen1778, May 14 '12 at 18:02
@Garmen1778 What exactly makes them the best choice for you? — Šime Vidas, May 14 '12 at 18:08
@ŠimeVidas The width and height of each frame are easily editable, and I need that. I don't know ho to do it with tables. — Garmen1778, May 14 '12 at 18:10
@Garmen1778 You can use CSS `width` and `height` to define the dimensions of your elements on the page. — Šime Vidas, May 14 '12 at 18:11
@ŠimeVidas Can I edit the CSS of a single column or a row of a table? How? — Garmen1778, May 14 '12 at 18:16
@Garmen1778 You assign ID values to the main structural elements of your page. And then you use ID selectors for your CSS rules: `#leftcol { width: 450px; }` — Šime Vidas, May 14 '12 at 18:21
The question does not appear to be constructive. The poster ased essentially the same question again after about an hour, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10589097/how-to-put-this-code-into-a-table — Jukka K. Korpela, May 14 '12 at 20:13

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 14 '12 at 17:52

You can start improving it by removing frames.

Frames have been obsolete for a long time and have been removed completely in HTML5.
They're are better ways of accomplishing a common layout using server side technology like PHP includes or SSI.
Plus frames are not good for accessibility or usability.
They are not search engine friendly
They break the rule of one URL fer page
They are not easy to maintain. It can be tough to figure out exactly which page you are viewing.
Mobile devices probably are going to have a hard time rendering those pages properly.
Users can't bookmark a page since every page uses the same URL

Is it a website with frames and framesets well designed?

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