I'm finding the use of Dreamweaver's assets to be really painful to use as I have to go into a web content management system to publish my pages and that requires me to check off each page I want to publish. My nav and footer change from time to time and it's really painful to check off hundreds of pages to publish them after dreamweaver updates each page. Sure it would make much more sense to use SSI. My site is served on IIS and there is a strict policy that they will not allow me to use the html extention as my file holding the SSI. I hardly ever see any sites out there use .shtml for homepage or anything. Can anyone tell me how they are handling their navigation and footers? I'm not really liking Dreamweaver's assets all that much. I have a feeling it was designed for Contribute to publish.

They won't let you use shtml and SSI ?? Time to get another host.
The file extension doesn't have to be SHTML, SHTM works as does .htm for plain pages.

How are people including their nav and footers? Are they having it coded on each page or are they using SSI? I would think they are using SSI on a fairly large site. But I am finding that nobody has .shtml as an extention. I want to do the same and only have .html or htm. With using SSI. IIS does not have XBitHack and I do not have control over the web server I can only upload to it and publish my files through a web app.

Get a new host that will set the application mappings to run SSI on .htm & .html or use .asp for your extension.