[osayidan]

Thank you for the reply
The left side navigation mod didn't quite suit my needs due to its coding interfering with other design elements, but looking at it i made my own code that does the same thing.

Thanks for pointing me in that direction =)

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for anyone who cares to know, this is what i did:
instead of having the table cell for the left navigation begin in the header and end in the footer, i put it all in the header, and opened up a cell for the content to be held in, then closed that cell in the footer.

header:

</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td width="17%" align="left" valign="top">
          <table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
            <tr>
              <td valign="top">$leftnav</td>
            </tr>
        </table>
  </td>
  <td width="83%" align="left" valign="top" id="content">
<!--- content loads in bellow here --->

footer

</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<table width="100%"  border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<!--- rest fo the footer bellow here --->

I then edited the navigation template to be empty, so it wont display, and put the navigation in my header instead.

here is how it looks:
http://imgfree.com/images/hsxathpxidci.gif