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This post is for anyone trying to change the layout of a discussion web articles area without having to use themes.
Inside the _borders directory (If you can't see this go to:> 'Tools' 'Web settings' 'Advanced' and check the 'Show documents in hidden directories' box.) there are two files 'disc_aftr.htm' and 'disc_ahdr.htm'. The later should be edited with Frontpage.

In my case I wanted tables with borders to be used for holding the article information and Verdana as the fixed font. I'm picky, what can I say

disc_ahdr.html >>>> I created the tables and set the font & font size within them. Then by going to html view I cut out the closing tags (eg. </tr></font> etc.). This was ONLY done for the table thats going to hold the info.

Next, open-up disc_aftr.htm in a text editor NOT Frontpage. Just underneath the opening body tag (<BODY....> ) paste the previously cut closing tags. Save the document and upload your files. The reason you shouldn't use Frontpage fot the disc_aftr file is because excess closing tags are removed upon saving. Well, at least they are in my FP2000.

If everything has worked, your articles should be in your chosen font within the table/s you've created. You can give the table padding/spacing, background colours etc. Just remember to close the tags in disc_aftr.htm.

The downside is that the 'subject' and 'comments' are in larger font. I haven't worked out a way of beating this yet. Editing themes seems the way forward.. If anyone manages to find out please post the info here. Thanks.

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Hope others find this useful too!
--Bri

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If you edit your website remotely and then publish to the webserver. Never, ever edit tocproto.htm (discussion wizard saves this in the _disc folder).

I later decided I wanted to set a specific font and size, quite happly did this, published to webserver and all the links to my discussion posts disappeared... quite obviously I'd published a blank page with no links over the webserver version that did.

So, I spent the rest of the day learning html so I could restring all the posts back together again.

To make doubly sure this never, ever happens again, I've edited the properties of all discussion web related files and checked the box that says "exclude this file when publishing rest of web".

Hope this saves someone else grief.