Difficulty understanding how to code up a webpage

[eluser]Carlton[/eluser]
Hi People,

I have been looking through the code igniter documentation for about 2 weeks now and started writing some code but having difficulty grasping how it is you should create a reusable structure for a web page.

Previously I would have created nav bars, side navs in seperate php files and used the include function to place them in certain places of a template. If I were to do something similar in Code Igniter would I need to use multiple views...e.g....

Code:

$this->load->view('header_view', $data);
$this->load->view('nav_view', $data);
$this->load->view('content_view', $data);

and the data variable may contain page specific elements...such as a title...is this approach correct?

Also, how can I avoid calling 3 views on every page...would I need some sort of web page class that each page (e.g. login, search, news) extends and can simply call some sort of method that renders my main structure (i.e. create header, nav and body...then if I need to alter this I can just do it in one place)

Hopefully this question makes sense, I think I will look into buying a book which covers OO web page development or something as I think I am missing something

C