I have a column on the left of my site that varies depending on the page. It can include all sorts of information and boxes. I think at the moment it contains 4 or 5 elements of a possible 16 depending what the page is.

This is all in ASP at the moment, and I am moving to .net.

What I do at the moment is have a 16 bit number and use the 1 and 0 to determine how the left column is configured.

I was thinking of making a usercontrol with a stringbuilder and depending on the if a particult element of content was required just build the column element in HTML into a string

the other idea I had was a usercontrol in a usercontrol, but not sure if this is even possible or might be two messy

Any ideas or input would be a great help

Graham

Why not build the column out of sections with a boolean based on the bits in your number and then refactor any sections into their own user controls on an as needed basis?

Is that already live? Could you give us your site's name?