Couple of newbie and design questions hopefully all can be accomplished in C#

I want to build and app that has branding across the top of the screen not very tall in high, just enough and it will contain the web form name that you are on.
I want menus on the left side of the screen.
I want in the right hand corner my web form
I want under the menu a smaller frame to house common control -like messages waiting -authorizations to be viewed etc...
I want under the main screen a help window.

The screen could be like the following :
Questions are below....

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|    Logos / Web Form Name     |
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| M |                          |
| E |      Web Form            |
| N |     Main Content         |
| U |                          |
|   |                          |
|   |                          |
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| * |    Help Area             |
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* = Message que area

1) Is frames the right choice to use to break a screen into definable areas?
2) If frames is okay, is there a way in C# to have the frames talk to one another, such as user clicks something in main area then the help area would load the appropriate details.
3) Is there a way to read the value of an object in a frame(C#)?
4) or better yet if a users tabs into a field update the help area?


Thanks