UI/Navigation Assistance

[TimothyP]

I'm using VB.net in Visual Studio 2003 against SQL 2000 tables.

I am trying to learn and apply a professional looking navigational structure for my web application.

It was suggested to me to use Panels within a 2 column, 1 row table. The left table column would include my menu panel and my right table column would include all my content pages. Depending on which link on the menu side was selected it would simply set the corresponding Panel's visible property to 'TRUE' and all others to 'FALSE'.

I want to have a 'show menu' and 'hide menu' option on the screen to allow the visibility of the menu to be turned on and off. I can easily change the Panel visibility property to 'FALSE' so I don't see the menu items. However, I can't seem to figure out how to change the left table column's width property (where the menu items reside) from 20% to 0% and the right table column's width property (where the content pages reside) from 80% to 100%.

Please let me know if you know of a better way to accomplish this.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you

 

[jbenson001]

If you can use VS2005, you can use master pages. If you have to use an earlier version, then you will have to implement page inheritance to get the same effect as master pages.