MasterPages - ContentPlaceholder to replace Frames?

[AlexW]

This stuff is new to me except for frames.

I can't see how Master pages can provide a sizable splitter that frames
can do and very easly fill each frame with an untouched aspx form.

It's getting harder to do simple things in my opinon. I understand the
idea behind master pages and it's great but give me a break.

I suppose i'm having a hard time not having any body,form, head tags
within a aspx doc that has the masterpagefile directive. So I don't
have a background image anymore, it's just a royal pain in the ***!

So I have to convert my existing aspx pages to be content compatible
but I loose allot of formating. I know you can use frames still but
VS2005 will not allow you to view the html page with frames anymore,
which sucks.

Hope I'm not alone feeling fustrated. If anyone has any good examples
please let me know, the help I've found blows, it's to simplistic.

Before I forget, when you see the content place holder on your content
page it's really strange to have controls outside it though the
controls tags are actually nested within the content tags in the source
view. Make the whole view designer look really messed up.

Later.