What do I need to learn

[drglass]

I'm working on a personal project and came up with a layout for the web page. I'd like to have an 800x600 area split down the middle, with text based news on one side and a list of projects on the other.

I want to have the center and top banner stay constant while the two "wings" are loaded seperatly, so a project button will change what is displayed in the project "wing." While the news links with change what is displayed in the news "wing".

Here is a drawing of what I want to do: here (http://www.docglass.net/Files/main%20copy.jpg)

I just don't know how to make this dream a reality, I need to know what to reserch and learn so I can make this happen. any ideas? :)

[dyers78]

There are several ways to do this. The easiest is to set multiple targets for each link/button, but this is very limited to location. I would suggest using layers and attaching a show/hide script to each link. Here is a page I set up using layers: http://unitedwayqc.org/html/Assets.html

click on each link a new layer appears and hides the previous one

[drglass]

Thanks! while I was stumped on the html side I did manage to work together a flash site (http://housepeople.docglass.net/flashome.html), note that is just the one project nothing else.

[dyers78]

sweet! If you want help with the html side, let me know, It's simple to set-up and you do a lot of fun things with it by adding the use of the background attribute in Css.

[Ryan8720]

iFrames would be the easiest even though I don't like them.