If your color was determined by a style on an external style sheet you would only have to update the one external style sheet. In that case you wouldn't save the dwt because there were  no changes on the dwt hence the linked pages would not change.

Thanks for that bit of advice and I do that with items that would apply to a style sheet setting.  This particular change is a change to a small bit of java script code that had to be made and unfortunately can't be controlled through a style sheet.  It is not for all the links on the page, but only for the Kontera link color so can't be a global sheet type change.

The way you are refer to is the same as I mentioned in the manner that PHP would do it also.  With a DWT, as far as I can tell it doesn't allow for that. This little snippet of code like I mentioned in the earlier post is to change the color of a "link" for Kontera, a is a self contained style if you will in the java script but it is part of the DWT, as it appears on every page.

Seems to me that Microsoft could have found a way to do this or I'm hoping there is already and I just don't know it.  Luckily with high speed cable it still only takes about 10 minutes to republish the 400+ pages, but after 5 times it was getting tiresome.  It still seems there should be an easier way.

First, you can give your link a class and put that class in your stylesheet. If the class/link is used more than once or twice in your site it should save bytes since the stylesheet is cached and when it is an inline style it is not.

As for javascript, that too can be put into an extenral file then you only have to upload the js file.

DWT is a design time feature which is useful when you do not have any server side support and for those who need to see in design view what a page looks like. It is not a complete substitute for server side includes. If you web server supports ASP.NET 2.0 you can use master pages which work like DWTs in that you have locked and content ares that are editable.

Chose the one that works best in your server environment. For me I normally use a combination of server-side includes and DWTs since very few of my servers currently support asp.net .2.0.

Thanks for that helpful explanation Cheryl.  In the the types of scripts I'm referring to, the actual Java file doesn't most often reside on my server, such as the case with Kontera.  But the code snippets have to be at the bottom of each page just before the </body> tag.  If you look at the source code of any of my pages and look at the all the code snippets that reside there, they all have to be where they are located.  Some are for click tracking, some for site stats, etc. Would this still work in the way you are suggesting?

My server doesn't support asp.net 2.0 so that's not an option either.  If you know of some links for me to read that have examples of what you are referring too, I'd be happy to read up on server side includes.  I've tried using some before but had bad luck with trying to get some to work, so I always figured it was something beyond my current capabilities but I'm still learning everyday :O)

Thanks for all the information being shared so far...