Hi,

Newbie here. I'm wondering if I can set up a new top level category, that is also a forum, with a different color than my other categories?

I hope this is not a stupid question.

Thanks,
Ken

Not easily ;) You would have to do that through a custom CSS.

Of course you can, it'll take a lot of time and effort but it can be done. CSS would work best. You could try using a CMS if you were worried about ease of doing it, but sometimes those are more of a hassle then blessings. Check out this site for helpful tuts. http://www.w3schools.com/

After creating a different CSS class for each category, you would probably need to hard code a PHP loop to display the correct style with its corresponding forum. Try searching for a template hack as I'm sure others have requested this before.