frames in Latex

in order to print text inside a frame:

 \centering
    \fbox{
    \begin{minipage}{1.0\linewidth}

    The text that will be printed in frame goes here..

    \end{minipage}
    }

a few tips here: http://www.personal.ceu.hu/tex/spacebox.htm
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Advanced_Topics
http://chenfuture.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/frames/