[djeglin]

Originally Posted by Bill Posters

Not necessarily. By modularising those components which appear on every page, and then bringing them in as 'included' files, you're actually improving a site's overall maintainability.
To make site-wide changes to the menu, you only need to change one file.

Same principle as external css and js.

I can see your point here... but if they arent managing the whole site with php, then i cant imagine that its really likely to be complicated enough, or be changed frequently enough, to warrant this? I was more making the point that a drop down menu should be very simple, and that for the fuctionality (discounting updating) it shouldn't be difficult to build it in to the page.