This mornings discussion brought to mind the use of templates on your website. I know some web editors allow the use of Dynamic Web Templates - Dreamweaver, Expression Web, FrontPage 2003, and Sharepoint Designer 2007 (free). A Dynamic Web Template (DWT) allows you to create a template or multiple templates with regions both editable and non-editable. The non-editable regions would be those areas that remain the same throughout your site - the masthead, the navigation (possible) and the footer. Editable regions are those areas that change from page to page - the head section areas for the title, description and keywords for the site. The main content area would be an editable region as would your site navigation if it changes from page to page or section to section. If you want to make a change in the non-editable regions, you change the DWT and those changes are made on all pages the DWT is attached to. Likewise, if you are using an external style sheet, you change the look of your site by editing the style rules. Again, a change on the style sheet will be reflected on all pages the style sheet is attached to. Another advantage with these programs is the use of page includes - Design Time includes in all but Dreamweaver. Not sure what they are called there. So if you have a sectional menu and it is an include, one change to the menu is reflected in all pages the include is part of. Not sure how DW works but in the others, if you make a change in the include, you need to publish all pages the include is part of. If you are NOT using one of these programs, you can still use a template for your site, along with server side includes (ssi) to achieve the same thing. Develop the look of your site for the template to create your new pages. If you use ssi's for the footer, navigation and even the masthead, one change and the change is reflected throughout the site where the ssi is used. The only thing I don't like about using ssi's is you cannot view it from your computer. Barry has a work around for this which I have used successfully. So if you want a consistent look to your site that is easier to maintain, look into using a template and external style sheet. The templates here http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gearyfamily/templates.html can be used with any of the programs menmtioned above. The package also includes a template that does NOT require the use of one of those programs. Pat