[KW802]

Originally Posted by b6gm6n

I am the original author, and looking at other peoples to see how they did things? i mean did they to? - it's a style, and thats exactly what it was meant to be.

I'd like to know what exactly phased you? - all i did was make a style, i did'nt place any fancy code in there...just did exactly what other people do...hopefully my 'credit' is still intact wrtting this

-b6

Hey, you're still with us!

As I mentioned above it's a really nice looking style but people had problem with it because of the way it was implemented. To clarify that, in the original version the header was seperate from the body which was seperate from the footer so there were three unique areas. That meant that nearly every template that would be displayed between the header and the footer had to be modified to have the outside graphic borders and to set the width. For people using various portals that also caused problems for them because then they'd have to modify the portal template to do the same thing.

If you take a look at the modified version that I posted the same effect was achieved by wrapping everything inside of an outer table so that the side graphics are specified in just one spot, the header. By doing that none of the other templates, except for the footer, had to be touched so they were all reverted back to the defaults. The footer was then touched to close the table that was opened in the header. The end result was the exact same look & feel of the original but with only two templates modified.

The other problem that came up was that stuff in the original version's 'header' area was causing the page to fail validation. To clarify that, the body & head tags should not have been in there and the CSS style could've been placed in the "Additional CSS Definitions" section.

Please, do not take my comments earlier as an insult as it was not meant to be. My earlier comment was more of a 'heads-up' that when working on styles sometimes it's good to look at other styles to see how certain things were implemented rather than starting from scratch.