Well thanks for all that, I don't think I can do any of this, I don't know how to write using scripts, html, php or whatever its all called and I hate notepad because it never changes lines unless you hit the return, it goes on and on........plus you cant see what it looks like as you go along!
I can only do simple stuff and this is all just so complicated.
I love frontpage because I can type just as I am typing this and then add hyperlinks and anything I want and it creates all the code on its own, a bit like these reply boxes where I can change it to bold I don't need to learn how to do the code for it.

I didn't think it would be so hard to have some links on the portal page that click through to other pages outside of the forums that will match the same design as the forum and all be in sync with each other!

Oh well I will have to re-think all this. I am not sure I like all this php stuff!!

Thanks anyway.....gong away to cry