I feel identified with the first part of the article. I remember the problem about navigations and headers (and right sidebars!).
The first solution was of course framesets, but they were kind of ugly. Then iframes came, and they were almost perfect solution (at least for me). With no borders, they looked like an include. The only problem (and depending of your website) it was that the height was fixed (for headers that may not be a problem, but it was for left and right sidebars).
Of course, with PHP and includes everything became trivial. I kind of miss the old `index.php?cont=page1`...
The first solution was of course framesets, but they were kind of ugly. Then iframes came, and they were almost perfect solution (at least for me). With no borders, they looked like an include. The only problem (and depending of your website) it was that the height was fixed (for headers that may not be a problem, but it was for left and right sidebars).
Of course, with PHP and includes everything became trivial. I kind of miss the old `index.php?cont=page1`...