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Jane Here

I have a series of pages. The top half of the page changes, but the bottom
half stays the same.

I have created each page and put a Next and Previous button on each page. I
also have a table of all topics on the left so that the user can jump to any
page.

I have crafted each page in full. I am wondering if there is a recommended
way of doing this sort of thing. My guess is it would have a faster response
if it stayed on the same page and just changed the contents as the user
clicks on the appropriate button.

Is this possible, and what do I need to learn to be able to this?

What do you recommend?
 
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Kevin Spencer

It depends on how dynamic the content is going to be. You could write a
server-side web application, using ASP.Net or some other server-side
technology, but unless the number of documents is going to change, or is
rather large, or the content will change often, it might or might not be
worth the trouble.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.
 
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Jane Here

That sounds complicated. Is there an easier way, for example:

Is there a way to have all the text on the page, and make just the text I
want to show becomes visible when the user clicks a certain button? if all
the text were already on the page (on top of each other), then the page
would not have to change. It would just be a matter of refreshing parts of
the page.

I have no idea if anything like this is feasible?

Thanks.
 
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Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage

Hi Don,
I see your xmas-i-am url. there was a poster to this newsgroup some time
ago who used that sig line. do you know her?

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Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

Please feel free to contact me here:
http://nedp.net/contact/
 
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Kevin Spencer

Not necessarily a good idea. When you use layers, you can certainly hide
things. That doesn't mean they aren't there. Depending upon the total size
of each "page" you could be concocting a nightmare of latency for your
users. That is, the page could take forever to load.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
I get paid good money to
solve puzzles for a living
 
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Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage

I was wondering what happened. she posted that she was going to the
hospital, then never posted again. sad.

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Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

Please feel free to contact me here:
http://nedp.net/contact/
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