Hi everyone -

Looking for some feedback on how to best tackle this.

There are often some sections of a site repeatedly used through (almost)
all pages - header, footer, sidebar for example.  These sections sometimes
have multiple page parts.  Example: a header might have a mission statement
and a photo, a footer might be something of a "super" footer with lots of
often changed page parts.

My question is:  Do you create a few "global" pages under the homepage with
those page parts, and just hide them from generated navigation (if you do
so)?  I've previously gone in that sort of direction. For a further
contrived yet explicit representation:

Homepage
- Global header  (with 2 page parts)
- Global footer  (with 3+ page parts)
- Global Sidebar (with 4+ page parts)
...
- About
- Blog
- Contact

My thought on this is that it smells a bit.  It just feels wrong. Those
aren't "pages".  So, I ask you, the brilliant denizens of the RadiantCMS
mailing list - how do you approach this?

If there were only a few things here and there, and they were just text,
then I could put them in as settings, but that's got its own odoriferous
properties.

Thanks for your time!

- Joel

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