mincklerstraat - 3:17 pm on Nov 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hester's advice here would mean you'd only have to do all your site-wide link changes once, just including the common php header and footer. Later, you might want to go fancy and have all your pages in a certain category output their own common category-based sidebars.

But what you really want for ease of use in the end is a content management system.

One of the main reasons, though, is: php is fun.