WebWatch Trawl of UK University Entry Pages (4)
In July 1998 the following 19 sites used frames, compared with 12 in October 1997:
- Essex • Bretton Coll.
- UCE • Royal College of Music
- Keele • King Alfred's Coll.
- Middlesex • Nottingham Trent
- Portsmouth • Ravensbourne Coll.
- Teeside • Birkbeck Coll.
- UMIST • Uni. Coll. Of St Martin
- Thames Valley • Queen Margaret Coll.
- Westhill • Scottish Agricultural Coll.
- Kent Institute of Art and Design
In July 1998 5 sites used client-side requests to provide redirects or "splash screens".
UMIST is an example of a framed website
De Montfort University displays a screen with a yellow background. After 8 seconds a new screen is displayed.
"Splash screens" are created by <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="n; URL=xxx.html">
Liverpool University also uses frames but this was not detected by the robot due to the Robot Exclusion Protocol.