First off I am happy to have found another great VB resource out there..

Ok-- onto my question and if its in the wrong area I apologize and the mods can move it ;).

Ok for my site I have a very simple/ugly main page LINK (http://www.nw-wheelers.com/) that basically just re-directs you to my forums LINK (http://www.nw-wheelers.com/forum/index.php) .

So I have been pondering what to do and I have seen a # of forums that has a totaly different style --like vBulletin.org and vBulletin.com and a # of other sites out there.

Now I know my way somewhat around the workings of VB enough to have done a # of custom mods to my templates so I kinda know my way around VB

So my question is whats going to be the easiest method to go about doing a different style for my main page?

Thanks for your time....

So my question is whats going to be the easiest method to go about doing a different style for my main page? Well, that is just a regular web page--so you could many things to create it. I use BBEdit (which is a text-editing program for Macs), you could use WordPad, TextEdit, or Dreamweaver.

However, I would get rid of that page. It appears that your forum is the primary reason that your site exists, so take your visitors directly to your forum. You can link to your gallery from your forum.

--don

Ya I had thought about doing something like that and just having the forum pop up instead of a home page--But I really like how they feel when there is something ohter than the forum but forum stats and so on.

So let me ask this...

Can you have one style for your home page and then a hyperlink to the forum which is another style? (I assume thats how its done)....

It's possible... if your home page uses one custom style independent to the forum, then you could link to the forum and add this to the end of the URL:

<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/forum/index.php?styleid=x

... where x is the ID of your style.

I finally found the answer to my question. Found CMPS and just love how it looks now...