Question

I am designing a website and I want to have a static menu at the top and I want to load the corresponding page that the user asks for below the menu. But I don’t want to reload the whole page, just the section below the menu should be loaded. What is the ideal design to do that?

Answer 1

You can do that with jQuery’s load function, applying it to a DIV that covers all you want to replace, although doing that instead of regular pages has a number of disadvantages:

• Search engines can’t get to each page
• Users with js off won’t be able to browse the site
• You don’t really gain much since you are still loading almost the whole page