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Right, I've done plenty of other stuff in my degree so far, but not had any reason to learn any HTML :)

I've got a site set up, with <div> sections, for a header, footer and main body. For a particular part of the site, I'd like to add a menu on the left, which then spawns the content in the main body space to the right of it.

Can anybody point me to the best way to do this? I don't want to have to create a whole new page for each of the entries...

TIA!
 
But then every time I added an entry to a main section, I'd have to update every other page with the new left menu?

Is there a completely different way to do it? :)
 
But I know frames are bad... I'll take a look at the Dreamweaver view tomorrow.

I don't know if I'm thinking of it wrongly, my searches aren't proving very productive either! :(

Would creating it in PHP be the best way, displaying text on the right according to the article chosen on the left?
 
The guy I'm making the site for wants it for complaining to the council basically, all I've got so far is:

http://ishullright.tsohost.co.uk

Under the sections of particular things to complain about, there's going to be short entries with photographs. So, rather than just having a really long page (which I could resort to), I imagined a menu down the left with the most recent entry at the top. Guessing I'll have to do some quick PHP learning :)

EDIT: and it'll be him that'll eventually be updating it. Which means the long page might be easier...
 
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Joomla does look simple enough, then he could do everything himself... But not truly customisable, in that I'd have to use a pre-defined theme.

Think I'll go with it for now, then change to entirely my own build when I've got more free time over summer.
 
I like that, hadn't thought of doing it that way. Showing my lack of site building here, PHP's easy enough to learn as I expected though :)
 
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