Stuart, if they really, really want to do it that way, you might suggest a modified wiki- check out
http://fox.wikis.com with its integrated search, "what's new" etc etc options.
Alternatively you could offer an app that generates the whole static ensemble using a web template supplied by them and that they can change at any time to regenerate everything without having to revisit every page.
To do everything manually seems daft. They need a web designer and lots of $ if they insist on it.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
