Blog/News posting using Dreamweaver/Contribute

This is a general question and I hope I'm posting in the
right place.
I have a client who wants a site that can be maintained using
Contribute. I've figured this being the case, I'd be best to set it
up as static HTML files using Dreamweaver, rather than the hand
coded ASP I usually use. I'm familiar with storing page content in
a database as XML and using XSL to generate HTML. Obviously this is
not going to work with Contribute.
I understand the process of creating pages using Dreamweaver
and/or Contribute. What I don't understand is how I can replicate
the dynamic news item menus etc that I can produce so easily with
ASP and a database. Is it possible to allow the user to create new
pages through Contribute and have links to these automatically
updated on the home page, or would they have to also add a link to
the home page? Coming from my background, that seems like a step
backwards to me, so I hope there is a neat way of doing it.
Forgive my ignorance if it's a common practice. This is my
first attempt at a site with CS. I've done some training on CS work
flow but it didn't cover dynamic content, blogs etc. I appreciate
any advice that comes my way or please let me know if I should post
somewhere else.

Thanks for the reply.
>Can you do something in asp
Yeah I can. Currently what I do for existing sites is that
all content is stored in the database. I have some special code
that grabs the current news headlines (based on some rules) and I
automatically build a news menu for the home page. Parsing
directories would be a bit painful I think but sounds like that's
the only option.
I'm still trying to get it straight in my head how Contribute
will integrate into the whole thing. I think I'm right in saying
that Contribute will only work with flat HTML files, not anything
built on the fly server-side like ASP. So all the maintainable
content needs to be in a flat file and any pages with dynamic
content will not be maintainable by the client.
>Will a real serverside blog suit the clients needs?
Could be but I guess that depends how easily I can integrate
it into the site with regard to appearance and navigation. They're
not going to want a sub-site with different look and feel. It also
gives them another maintenance interface to deal with for the blog
content and the reason they're insisting on Contribute is that they
already use it for their other site. I suppose RSS would be the way
to keep the news links up to date in that case. A home page with an
RSS feed back to the blog.
Thanks for the input though. I'm trying to get up to speed
quickly with this problem as they want a quote and it's the blind
leading the blind at the moment I'm afraid.

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