Working with single page websites and maintaining state using a URL hash and jQuery

Question

I\'m working on my portfolio, making it entirely jQuery based. So my problem is when you go to a page, then refresh then it will take you to the home page again. So I have t

Answer 1

This is not the way web sites are usually built, so in a sense you are swimming upstream. It may have seemed the shorter path when you began, but you will probably find that you must do a lot more work as a result of your initial decision.

That said, be sure to start with all the divs hidden and then display the selected one.

I also recommend Cowboy's BBQ plugin which will help you deal with back button as well as reload: http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-bbq-plugin/