Best option...?

Frame, Nav bar - content pages...?

[Harley_m]

Hi,

Im building an asp.net site in visual studio - and was wondering the best way forward - as all sites, i have a navigation menu (DHTML) and a top graphic, as well as a left side bar, the contents of which will be dynamic (letest news and such). As well as that - i obviously have content pages too - to go in the middle. How best do i design the site for ease, speed ect?

Am i right in thinking i could use include tags to insert pages into this empty space? - or is it best to cache it all and have it load each time - there must be a better way than that...

Any advice very welcome

Thanks so much

Harley

[threecrans]

For navigational controls shared between all pages I use a User Control.

[Harley_m]

And this doesnt need to reload every postback?

i was thinking - perhaps its stupid - but would there be a reliable way of embedding aspx pages into frames ect of a normal HTML page - so say i had a totally static site other than an asp.net nav bar at the top - could i have this aspx page embedded into a frame at the top...

similar to iframe i guess - but with slightly better compatibilty...