just wondering how everyone else keeps a consistant menu / header / footer across their pages.

not deployed anything yet but can already see it being a bit of a ball ache having to copy out sections of html for each page to have consitent menus.

plus updating EVERY page to reflect a new menu item  

is there a simplier way im missing without doing hideous iframes  :?:

you mean content management software?

any recommendations in what to look at?
free and uncomplicated for the peons here would be nice

you can use php to include the same file on each page. Otherwise you can use SSI (server side includes). Depends what your server supports.

Asp,jsp... and php tag code withen the page calling classes and functions in an ordered model.

anything in the ASP.net side i can use?

preferable to me to use that as ive got a good understanding of .net code and syntax