it would hurt in search engines because i do believe that search engines can't handle frames. for all you know a person might do a search for "fish" and end up with that blank side bar over there and now that's not very helpful is it!
Well I'm still not getting this whole frames thing. If one of you computer nerds (just kiddin!) could send me a private message explaining these things that would really help. And what is that little side bar thing you guys always talk about? I'm just curious. ;D