how would I go about formatting the forum to look like the rest of my website? I've seen a couple of sites that have done it. Hell this forum does it. Is there an index.htm file that I can edit? where is it? How do I (or can I) access my infopop/images/etc....directory?

While you cannot access the /infopop/ directory, you can change your images to ones you have on your webspace. This forum makes use of two fields in the style set, 'Insert After Opening BODY Tag' and 'Insert Before Closing BODY Tag'. It lets you add your own custom HTML.

i've noticed that if you remove the image from the top of the page, and leave it blank, then you still get a line break before your HTML kicks in. i've deleted the <br> from the HTML boxes in the style sections. is there any way of getting rid of it?

You can look up the id tag for any element and put

<style>
#id_name {display:none}
</style>

and this will remove anything inside the elemnt from the page.

The section that holds the title image has an id tag so this technique will work nicely.

Michael Farris
OpenTopic/UBB.x Product Manager