maintenance vs. useability

[JQ Johnson]

Mark Gooch asks:
>The problem with this obviously is the maintenance of about 100
>pages if anything needs to be changed on the navigational menu.

As Sean Dellinger notes, you could of course store the HTML fragment that
you use for navigation in a separate file and include it in other docs
using server side includes or the equivalent (probably ASP if you're using
IIS).  If you do decide to keep copies of the code in each of 100 files,
it's still fairly easy to maintain if you use the right tool: almost all
modern HTML editors include some feature for this (templates in FrontPage,
libraries in Dreamweaver, multi-file search and replace in many text
editors [I use BBEdit or perl], etc.).

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