It used to be that some browsers could not even render a "framed" site. That´s probably not an issue anymore. But, inherently, frames are just a bad idea in all but a few cases.

Framed pages are hard to bookmark. Hence, you are throwing up a roadblock to the user returning to a specific page on your site. Frames take up valuable screen real estate. You need that screen space to show content. Search engines have problems indexing framed pages. These are all good reasons to avoid frames!

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