Application-wide text areas

Pretty much every single project we've created has followed a typical L-shape layout, that is:

• Custom filter panel on the left (text area with restricted filter view, grouped by accordion)
• Custom text area along the top, with client logo and navigation buttons 

This is difficult to maintain if the application spans multiple pages - one of our worse offenders is a 21-page application. You can imagine the headaches of html changes having to be applied to each and every one!

We need some way to either "auto-copy" the panel layout to all pages, or preferably a means to set them as static - i.e. application-wide not just on the current tab.

Secondly, we need a way to fix the height and width of these panels because the other major problem with an L-shape  layout is that page resizes force white space to appear where there's no need for it.

These suggestions will help us to deliver visually appealing spotfire applications.