OK, just to verify that I am not quite the HTML idiot that I might appear to be, I will type out the text that I originally saved in Notepad (with an HTML suffix) and tried to open in IE with the full pathname in the browser window. This text was copied from an HTML tutorial site, and the reason I wanted to try it is because I am developing a website (or rather my son is doing it for me)and this looked like a useful feature.

I am replacing the pointy brackets with square brackets for the purposes of putting the text up here.

[html]
[head]
[title]My Frames Page[/title]
[/head]

[frameset cols="120,*"]
[frame src="menupage.htm" name="menu"]
[frameset rows="*,50"]
[frame src="welcomepage.htm" name="main"]
[frame src="bottombanner.htm" name="bottom"]
[/frameset]
[/frameset]

[/html]

Now , when I save this is in Notepad (with the .HTML suffix) , and then type the pathname in the IE Browser, the message comes up "Internet Explorer cannot open this page"

I have tried other small pieces of HTML code and they work fine, but this one doesn't for some reason. This is what prompted the thread in the first place.