Fair point sublime.

I appreciate the replys and effort it takes to write them. Thanks to all for that. As for me, I think my XOOPS experimentation has finished. Just proving too difficult / too long-winded to make it look good, to make basic layout changes. I have worked out changing the themes now (thanks for the help), but everything is just taking to long with it. Back to Joomla......

Thanks again, and hope XOOPS work out great for all of you.

Thanks for that.

Programmers messing with langauge again.....

To admin..... XOOPS looks like a great package, but it is a shame such simple things are made so complicated becuase the development team decide a theme and a template are different.

So where do I get templates from? Or is that only for customised templates?

Still don't get what the upload function within XOOPS admin does.... I've read everything here and the links.

Now I realise this was discussed some time ago. Still, having read the old thread and links, I still don't entirely get it. Sorry. just for info, this could really put people off moving to Xoops....

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Hi all

I had previously been testing Joomla and thought today I'd have a look at Xoops.

Everything looked great until I tried to download and use a new template.

They download in .zip form yet the upload in XOOPS requires .tar.

Am I missing something or is this a huge oversight? I appreciate this is open source and therefore I am not complaining, just concerned that something so basic is missed. That I should stick with Joomla. Or I'm an idiot......

Please help......