good lord somebody is stuck in the 90's @ campus grid. From my understanding, modern web pages run off of css style sheets and tags to make pages almost appear to have frames which don't. (you can see my HS senior design project from last winter where I created
http://www.icanimate.com using this technique(similar to youtube)).
The only time that frames should ever be used these days in when compaines/institutions can't afford to switch over all of their content to modern w3c standards:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...d.com/fees.php -tells you something about this company
I was on my HS committee for recommending web based technologies and we ended up recommending Edline:
https://www.edline.net/
I would recommend personally but from my understanding it did end up being a bit pricey and was really only meant for contacting students/parents.