Formatting question

Hello......

I recently agreed to re-design my church's website. One of the things that
is on the existing site, and which the church would like to maintain on the
new site, is a link to the church's monthly newsletter. What was done in the
past is that the person who wrote the newsletter (using Word 9), when it was
complete, saved it in HTML format. The young man who was then doing the site
then just uploaded the page into the site and created a link.

While this works, and is probably adequate, the result is a page that has
miles and miles of excess and non-standard code. I have thought about
creating an external style sheet for this, but there are so many different
formats used in the newsletter (looks great in print, but not so hot on a
computer screen) that, even doing it this way, I would be spending a couple
of hours every month doing the coding for one newsletter. When you consider
that I do work full-time and have a family, you can see where that would not
be the most practical of solutions.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a way to get these newsletters onto the
site easily, and still have some nice clean code? (Other than ask the pastor
to use a simpler format for the newsletters? Hehe.)

Another problem I have been pondering is a general visual design for the
site. Although I normally avoid frames, and totally understand their
disadvantages, I think that in this instance they might be the way to go. I
would like to have some sort of banner at the top of each page, to tie the
site together and provide for navigation. To save time and bandwidth, what I
had considered doing was creating a frameset with a frame at the top for the
banner and navigation, and then a frame at the bottom that the newsletters
and other content could be channeled into. Here again, does anyone have
ideas for a better solution?

I appreciate any and all suggestions.

Dusty
http://www.tiadon.com/designsbydusty/default.htm

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