Best way to have a menu go to different content views?

Question

I am working on a custom app that I want to be a portfolio. As of now I have one mainActivity that has a bar going down the center divided into 8 buttons of things you could click on, like "web", "copywriting", "content creation", etc...

I just want to have it so what button you click takes you to the proper page but instead of making 8 different activities I want to try and code it like we learned to in the Interactive Story exercise with MVC...but I'm still kinda confused on a lot of it .

I was thinking if I pass a variable through off each button click with either a number "1" or a string, "web" then it would load the content for the page that is named the same. but not sure if this is the best way to think about it or do it.

I guess I would just make a content page with an array on it and title the array the names of the buttons? then somehow I would have to get the name of the button and pass it into an imageview for the header and pull in the content? Does this make any sense? I hope you can help! Thanks!

as far as passing a variable I found this on github:

 //step 1:
 import android.content.Intent;

//step 2: add to activity you want to sav variables from

Intent i = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), ActivityName.class);
            i.putExtra("someVariable","variableValue");
startActivity(i);

//step 3: add to activity you want to pulll variables from
Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
        if (extras != null) {
            String someVariable = extras.getString("someVariable");
            }

here's what I have so far, two activities.

package com.dredaydesigns.dredaycreativeportfolio;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;


public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        final Button webButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.webButton);
        webButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                String name = webButton.getText().toString();
                Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, content_activity.class);

            }
        });
    }
//     private void startContent(String name) {
//Intent goToNext = new Intent(this, content_activity.class);
  //  goToNext.putExtra("name", name);
  //  startActivity(goToNext);
//}
//}


    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();

        //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }

        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);


    }
}

and my content_activity which for now I had set up with the "web" header picture

package com.dredaydesigns.dredaycreativeportfolio;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
public class content_activity extends ActionBarActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_content_activity);



    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_content_activity, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();

        //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }

        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}

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Best way to have a menu go to different content views?