atw: Re: Pages and frames

John:

For web sites, I refer to page, being the entire contents of the browser's
window (the window being that thingy with a title bar, menu bar, toolbars,
icons, status bar and all the usual whatnot of a browser).

When a browser page is divided into frames, I call each frame a pane, and
usually qualify "pane" pretty early: "the navigation pane at the left of
the page", "the title pane at the top of the page", and "the scrolling
content pane at the right of the page".  Thereafter I just say "navigation
pane", etc.

For online help, I refer to the help window, topic pane (or just topic),
and the navigation tabs (singly, Contents tab, Index tab, Search tab,
Glossary tab, and Bookmarks (Favourites) tab.

Regards,
Hedley

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I am documenting a web portal that uses pages, tabs and frames and then
uses frames to display windows and pages.
How do we refer to pages and frames in user documentation?

MSTP is the only reference I have for standard terminology.
It recommends 'page' but this doesn't work well for me and I've used
'window' for 'page', though I'm not still happy with that.
MSTP also says to avoid 'frame' for end users, but doesn't offer an
alternative.

What do you think?

John Dent

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