what is the best way to put all my webpages into an easy site navigation file...where I only have to update the one file and it updates the whole site. All my pages are saved as .html files and I'm wondering if I have to change them all into .asp if I use ASP scripts, or if there is a way around it.
To use asp scripts, the easy way to do it is to change the extension to .asp. Otherwise you have to configure IIS to run scripts on html pages.
If you convert to .net (aspx), you can use a sitemap datasource (xml file) to manage pages in your navigation. You can also configure it to be used as a sub-page navigation source.
No problem, were you able to understand what was going on in the link that I posted? I found the sitemap datasource to be really confusing to configure at first, but after you get the hang of it, it's a really useful way to manage your navigation.