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  :?:

i use a CMS cause i to lazy to do anything from scratch  

you mean content management software?

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

Quote from: madmaxyou mean content management software?

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

i like xoops but their is quite a few to choose from. Xoops is quite simple and has plenty of ad ons to the site to take the sting out of creating one. Plenty of users world wide. have a look at mine http://www.fore.me.uk but tbh that only used to show pics to me family

Drupal
Joomla
Mambo Open Source
Wordpress

are worth a look at.

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.

php includes are the easiest I find.

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

looking better, just figured out i can place "web controls" (.ascxs) and embed them wherever i like.

so i can make one called menu.ascx and put it in the menu div on the page and then if there are new items in the menu list, i change them in there and its a one time only change.  

probably better solutions but itll do for news items section as well