Hey,

new here, not to standard compliant web design, but I've stumbled across something I've never needed. Frames. This is the issue, basically I am creating a web site which will be completely, meaning I'm using free hosting and a free domain name. It's not actually my site, I'm creating it for a friend, but she asked me to make everything free, so please no "just get a host" etc comments... I got enough of those on a rather crappy other forum...

I got a domain from here http://www.joynic.com/ and what this does is not give you a real domain but instead put you in a frame.
Example: http://www.runecounty.us.tt/
See how the site is placed in some frame? I don't know why they do this. Annoys the crap out of me. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Possibly without opening a new page.

get a proper host is about the best advice you will get especially given that with a sub-domain of .us.tt your friend hasn't even got a real hostname.

domain (frame) forwarding is what you get from free hosting and free "domain" names, if you don't have it in a frame the address would be something like;

somesub.somefreehost.tld/usersites/~username/pagename (or something similar)

so it's either live with it or move hosts.

Sorry if this ain't what you want to hear but facts are facts.

Yeah, and I know all that and I know the URLs will get somewhat ugly... I think it's actually something like http://username.host.com/index.html and such.
It's alright if the address gets ugly at least then bookmarking works, because of course the frame breaks that features as well as linking to a specific part of the website from the outside.
I know it would be easier to just get cheap hosting and a domain name, but it's not my choice and I was just hoping someone could help me out here.

it's actually javascript you need

function frame_breakout()
{
  if (top.location != location) {
    top.location.href = document.location.href ;
  }
}

But it does defeat totally the object of having a pseudo hostname, it would be simpler to go get a geocities or tripod or brinkster etc account and use that.

Well the pseudo hostname is only used to get people to the page initially. After the the address bar is unimportant.
I don't know why I didn't realise JS, probably because it's Frames.

Well thanks, I'll try it out after I sleep. It's 9am and I've been going 38 hours on a real project I get payed for.