web programming help
 

ok, a site i help keep up is http://aclu.uchicago.edu . It's really the only site I run. The problem is, if there is every anything i want to change in the menus or header part, i have to go through dozens of files and do a find and replace all to fix my changes (doing find and replace all across files usually ends up being somewhat disastruous). So, what i'm asking for is help to make it such that there is a script or something such that I only need like, a template file for the general outline (basically everything that's there except for the main content) and that inserts a file's contents into the proper div's and then adds the proper class property to the menu to make it change colors when, say, "Leaders" is clicked on the left. I believe TWL does something like this in its setup. What is it using? keefe, or the web-programmers, any chance of me being able to use some of the code you've already got running to set this up properly for my site?