There are some fantastic themes available, try the art theme from the XOOPS official site - very nice. Its also quite easy to edit - to give you new letters etc.

Some themes can make XOOPS run a little slow though in my humble experience.

Part of the fun in setting up an XOOPS site is playing with the fantastic range of themes available. I just can't help changing when I find a new theme.

Be careful though as some of them don't work with the Mozilla family of browsers - especially when writers use DHTML. But hey thats part of the fun!

Enjoy

Is Apache scary to install? I've got the stand alone version XOOPS running (Xsas), but would like to stick it on an intranet not currently running Apache + gubbins. Is this possible?

I also use Frontpage 2003 to upload to my remote server, is there any way I can use this to change the permission to prevent the mainfile.php being writable by the server, or do I have to do some funky ftp stuff?

Cheers
Jools

I have to say I have never had any joy with Britich hosting companies. In the true ethos of rip off Britain they charge more than US counterparts, the service is poor and it seems to be down a lot of the time. If this wasn't serious enough, some will not allow you to host with them and register the domain with someone else.

A colleague has had real problems with one and one, but has sadly locked himself into a 12 month contract - a very british thing I guess.

What a wonderful regulated society we Brits are!

Cheers
Jools

Thanks for this thread, its cleared a few things up for me too!