I am building a community based website and I have been looking at a number of CMS tools. XOOPS seems to fit many of my needs but I have a design question. All the XOOPS sites I have seen, like this one, are 100% full screen websites -- meaning they fill up the entire window. I was wondering if it was easy to build a XOOPS site that was not 100% full screen. I mean something along the lines of Salon.com or Netflix. A site that was centered in the middle of the browser window with space on the sides. Is this easily doable? I am completely new to this and have no coding ability. I am proficient with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Frontpage 2003 as well as Dreamweaver 4.

Sure this is possible. The basic layout of a XOOPS site is defined in a template file. If you are familiar with html you can change it the way you like, e.g. define fixed table width.

I have designed 4 XOOPS sites so far.. all of them fixed width. I have taken the full screen site themes and adjusted them. Ususally pretty easy, just the theme.html or style.css depending on the theme.

JMass

That sounds easy enough. I'm still trying to decide which CMS and it's pretty much come down to XOOPS or ezPublish.

I checked out your site btw and it looks really good. The design is nice and clean and I like the feel. The fixed width looks great with it too. Good work.