Loadable navigation menu to open pages

I am working on a site where I am trying to have a standard navigation page load on the left side and the content to load in the right. I am basically trying to make a navigation menu with drop downs which will load the content in the same page. I know that I can simply make a copy of the navigation menu in each page, but I don't want to have to go through each page and make changes to the navigation menu individually when I want to update the information.

I want to do as much as possible with HTML5 and CSS, but I am having issues finding information about how to do it.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

You can take any free css template with Left sidebar then tweak it to suit your needs.. or a Fixed with CSS Layout.. You can google that.. or check : Free CSS Templates or http://www.freecsstemplates.org/

Goodluck

 

I finally got what I was doing to work.

I finally got what I was trying to do to work. I used iframe. For some reason the first couple of times I tried to use it it failed.

Thanks for the links, too.

 

be carefull with iFrames as some search engines won't indexed them so they won't be able to find all your pages if the iFrame contains your site navigation.

If you can use php then it's quite simple with the php "include" command but if you are not skilled with web programming then it may not work for you.

 

Fortunately, for this part of the website I am not worried about search engine results. In fact, I will most likely put a norobots in. I will remember that for future reference though. I know that was a problem with frames, but I didn't know it had carried over to iframes.

 

It's ok with Google if it's on the same domain but Yahoo and MSN won't read them at all.

The best solution is to switch to PHP and use "include", then you can load an entire html page that contains your navigation, that's how I do it for years.