If you're interested, then no. There's a world of wonder available - like CSS for example.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) lets you set up appearances so they will be the same anywhere they are referenced. I've got a site with red borders on the menu buttons and two others (related) with red and green borders. The only thing I had to do was change the color on the "menu_button" definition for the other two style sheets.
If you have specific questions (as in "well how the hell do I do THAT thing you just described?"
- post them. Someone will probably know the answer.
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