this is hacker news. and this post is questioning if its worth the effort to copy navigation to 8 pages. surely the obvious answer is to just include header/foo

this is hacker news. and this post is questioning if its worth the effort to copy navigation to 8 pages. surely the obvious answer is to just include header/footer files (e.g. simple example in php: <? include('header.php');?>). this way will just increase cost for his/her client down the road. Use even a super simple templating system (even if it is just including header/footer). sure, using WP is overkill. but this is just silly to have actual plain .html files... plus in a url http://example.com/about-us.html http://example.com/about-us.html doesn't look as nice as http://example.com/about-us http://example.com/about-us (something like mod_rewrite could fix this, but if he/she is copy/pasting headers/footers i doubt that would be implemented...)