How to show content on specific part of the page ?

[DezUk]

I have come up with this design http://www.theinflux.co.uk/v2

I way I want the design to work is when a user clicks on one of the buttons the content is shown in the left hand side panel. How can I achieve this without re loading the page as a new page with differet content ?

Ideas welcome

 

[DezUk]

Yeah but I want to be able to do it as I know it can be done, maybe using PHP ?

One of the reasons i don't want to reload the page is it means the page re loads and doesn't look as smooth as the content in the box just chnaging, I'm being right picky I know

But I like learning new things anyway.

 

[DezUk]

Argh, why's everyone asking for iframes on the forums recently!

You could set a height in pixels for your website and make sure the text you have doesn't alter that height; so it would appear that only that is changing. I really don't see why you're being so picky lol! Maybe you could use some fancy javascript if you're desperate.

Oh and give that text a bit of room to breathe, padding! "PC Repairs / Upgardes" lol

Nice spot man cheers

On the padding issue I know what you mean but I have tried to give that area some padding, like 5px. But what happens is the left hand side pads fine but the text then overflows the right hand side, don't understand why

 

[DezUk]

Thanks for the tip man, got some padding on there now