Help Dreamweaver CS4 and spry menus..

[Rulke]

This one's given me a headache, spent the last few hours googling and youtubing tutorials but none of them seem to show what I'm after.

I'm new to Dreamweaver but I'm trying to put together a reasonably simple webpage using CSS. Basically I want it to have a logo along the top, a spry menu under it and a info panel below that - the options in the spru meny will choose what is shown in the info panel.

So I've been learning how to use Div tags to set up the 3 areas and I've managed that - my question is how do i set up the spry menu to:

A) point to the main info div section
B) change what is shown there
C) Is it even possible? Or do I have to use frames?
D) Is it too complicated to do for a beginner and if so, is there a simpler way?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, or point me to some documentation or a tutorial that explains this.

 

[Chilly]

no need to use frames. You'll need to use javascript to make the change, triggered from the selection action from the menu.

 

[Rulke]

How do I do that?

 

[Chilly]

This is where being a beginner doesnt help. You'll need to take a look at some javascript guides. I also reccomend jQuery library. It makes programming in JS SO much easier. Trust me on this, you want to use jQuery.

 

[Rulke]

Yeah I've been reading about it today and think I'll try a different way. Seems a lot easier to use a template page instead.

Thanks for the help anyway