Why would it matter? The images, scripts and stylesheets are cached, so the only thing reloaded is text. Text is too light weight to worry about. If you're looking to template the menu for inclusion on all pages, you need server side includes. SSI can be done with your favorite server side scripting language or the web server, itself, can do it. See the tutorial at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/ssi.html cheers, gary