Realespace

I want to thank Reggie at mytechopinion.com for helping me with a wordpress plugin for excluding pages. I tried it and it works great.

This solution is much better then the solution I made. My solution required the blog owner to upload admin files that would need to be re-uploaded everytime the blog owner updated their site.

download the plugin here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages

While I was looking for the solution I found that many blogs use the websites categories instead of pages in their navigation. This makes a lot of sense to me since categories make the website more understandable.

to list categories instead of pages, you would replace wp_list_pages() with wp_list_categories()…simple enough.
here is the Wordpress codex on listing categories