I've used Dreamweaver on various different sites and I've always used templates as a way of updating pages in bulk. I find templates very frustrating and something always seems to go wrong, for no obvious reason.

I'm about to start work on a new site and have been thinking of whether to just create normal pages and abandon templates for find and replace. So when it comes to changing a graphic or text in the navigation, I can just go to edit > find & replace and choose 'sitewide'.

Does anyone else do this or is this really wrong?

Tim