cant get ajax to do a database refresh

[petvampire]

hey there. kinda new to this

only been coding for about 8 months using basic asp and got set a task byt a friend to build a chat client using .asp and ajax and javascripts. im trying to refresh the page using something other than meta refresh. the click is annoying people (if you going to point out to me im going agenst the user knowing the page is updating bla bla bla, please go annoy some one else as ive already read about it). i would like a way to update the page with out the click or a flicker. i call the chat information from a database which stores all the chat messages.

any ideas would be helpful.

thanks


p.s please keep it simple for me as im not very good