website design and navigation menu

[Svetlin]

Hi guys, I have conceptual question.
I am building website and I need to have the navigation menu same for all pages, it is not reloaded with every page and is kept in one file for easy update. I am aware of php include and frames but with frames I have the height issue and with php the navigation still flicker when loading the next page. What is the standard way to approach this?

 

[Baez]

You should never use frames unless absolutely necessary, and this is not one of those cases. Can you provide a link to the page? I'm not sure what you mean by PHP causes flickering since PHP is stateless, which loosely means once the page is loaded, it won't load or run anything else.

 

[iFargle]

Can't you do this in CSS?

 

[Svetlin]

Hi hanks for the response,
What I mean is that when I click on link to my other pages, the app window reloads, but I want to reload the content under the nav menu only I was trying to do something like this:
How to automatically include your header, navigation, and footer on every page | A Padded Cell
but then all my pages reload and they have to be in .php extension too
the other way (which is closest to what I need)was:
A List Apart: Articles: Keeping Navigation Current With PHP
but it does not seems to work
Are those the only way to approach this design problem?
Thank you

 

[Svetlin]

Any suggestions?