Main Page Suggestions

[overlordofevil]

I am looking for some advice on how to setup my main page.

 

I am working on a members login system that allows them to access different items in a db. Now when I started this project I used a frameset just so I could test to make sure the different php scripts and functions worked.

 

Now everything works except for my session control which I need to redo the main page/layout to correct this. The thing I am trying to figure out is how to rewrite the main page without the frameset but still have that style where I have the header, left column for the nav list and the main section for what is being worked on. The other thing I want to do is when the user logs in the system can check their access level and bring up the appropriate links and title for them.

 

I have looked over javascript to do some of what I want and a friend suggested using ajax (reading up on this now). The thing is from the little I have read I don't see how I can still do what I want to do.

 

I really want to learn this stuff and any suggestions on tutorials or a books I can read (or code ) would be helpful and appreciated.

 

thanks in advance for the help.

[ardyandkari]

for your layout you could use css or tables...

 

this is a google search for css layout tutorials.

 

the reason for that is that i dont have time to find a specific one, but just looking through the titles of the links brought up, i think that will get you on the right track.

 

tables are easy, but not recommended any more...