Thanks John, for your thoughtful reply.

You are absolutely right about not working directly to the live site, and I
should rephrase that to say, the staging site or development site. We do
have this paradigm in place and nothing goes live with out being tested
thouroghly

I guess what I am really asking is I would like to be able to have HTML
folks be able to work on layout and make changes to that sort of thing
without having to recompile the .Net application. So that our releases are
not so slow. A good example of this is I would like to have responded to the
Tsunami disaster by posting an aid links page and PSA without having to
rebuild the whole application to do it, and because our development is all
rolled up into one big ball, it makes it impossible to do this.

Am I right to assume that I shoudl be able to have HTML layout pages
separate from the application.
The graphics already are, so thats not an issue, and can chage those at
will, but layout is not separate and is defintiely causing much
consternation.

Can you or anyone reading this point me to some diagrams or basic resources
that can show or demonstrate an ASP.NET application with html layout
separate form the dll that has been compiled.

Pardon me if my terminology is not quite right, but I am feeling my way in
this space.

By the way, the app/web site in question is this:
http://www.friendsabroad.com

Much appreciated,