Most web sites use some form of visual indicator (breadcrumbs, 'down' state for buttons, highlighted text, etc.) to show the page or site area the user is currently upon. However, when trying to manage these indicators in large sites driven by Dreamweaver templates, the situation deteriorates quickly. You would need to put the 'indicators' in an editable region of the page so that it could be hand-tweaked for every site area- but this makes these 'static' site elements subject to end-user editing and the inevitable errors that ensue.
Fortunately, Stephanie Sullivan has written up a slick way of managing this all via CSS, without the need to make your indicators editable. You can read through Stephanie's tutorial here, over at the Nemesis project web site.
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