This wasn't at all hard infact. At the moment I had to get the site up and running quickly so I have used an iframe - or iframes in my case - to incorporate a left side menu (and top bar). The iframes will be dropped soon and an Ajax div solution tried. I think it will work. The way I have added the side menu is like this:

1. I added iframe code to the main_header.html. Simply view my main_header.html file and view source to see the additional code.

2. The 2nd iframe is being fed with a sliding menu code page here: Sliding Code Page. View source again. The page also has the code for a very handy Spellchecker which will work from the Sliding Code Page.

3. Closed the table by placing extra code right at the bottom of the main_footer.html.

4. I have also included the Latest Forum Post display in the lower iframe. I prefer to keep the 2 seperate for now but the code for this could be placed into the Sliding Code Page.

Dead easy really and simple to customize. The way I have carried this out will alter very soon but the links above should still show how I have done this. If you want to see how it looks then take a look here:

http://mark-jones.me.uk/media/minibb

Edit Update: I have now added the sliding menu code into the addon_1stpagenews2.php file (part of First page news 2 plugin) with a simple include command pulling in the slidingmenu.htm file and have dropped one of the iframes.

Regards - Mark

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In general, your task seems very custom and I do not really understand why it is implemented this way. AJAX? iframes? Do not forget we're having very simple things here. Plain HTML is enough in most cases; including yours.