Table Layout on Forum Home

[MartynJ]

May be the wrong forum to post in, but I was thinking "How do I..." when I thought about this...

Basically, I want to modify the Forumhome, but am not sure how to achieve what I am looking for. Tried editing templates etc, and style settings, but usually get a horrific mess of tables etc.. I have attached a graphic to this post and the next to show what I am trying to achieve. Any help would be really appreciated.

[MartynJ]

Here's what I propose to do:

[MartynJ]

Aha! Now I read the FAQ forum and saw the "use template names in HTML" function - so I can compare my code to the code of a forum that has the feature. This is what I see.

My forumhome :

            </td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </td>
    </tr>
<!-- END TEMPLATE: forumhome_pmloggedin -->
</table>
</td></tr></table>
<!-- /welcomepanel -->

<br>

<!-- main -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#B7B7AA"  width="100%" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0"  width="100%">
<tr align="center">
  <td bgcolor="#DADAC9"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1" >&nbsp;</font></td>
  <td bgcolor="#DADAC9" width="80%" align="left"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1"  color="#474747"><b>Forum</b></font></td>
  <td bgcolor="#DADAC9"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1"  color="#474747"><b>Posts</b></font></td>
  <td bgcolor="#DADAC9"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1"  color="#474747"><b>Threads</b></font></td>
  <td bgcolor="#DADAC9" nowrap><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1"  color="#474747"><b>Last Post</b></font></td>
  <td bgcolor="#DADAC9" width="20%"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1"  color="#474747"><b>Moderator</b></font></td>
</tr> 

And his:

                    </tr>
                  </table>
                  </center>
                </div>
<br>

<!-- main -->

        <div align="center">
      <center>
      <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="100%" id="AutoNumber22">
        <tr>
          <td valign="top">

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#000000"  width="100%" align="center"><tr><td valign="top">
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0"  width="100%">
<tr align="center">
  <td bgcolor="#111012"><font class="stext">&nbsp;</font></td>
  <td bgcolor="#111012" width="80%" align="left"><font class="stext" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Forum</b></font></td>
  <td bgcolor="#111012"><font class="stext" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Posts</b></font></td>
  <td bgcolor="#111012"><font class="stext" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Threads</b></font></td>
  <td bgcolor="#111012" nowrap><font class="stext" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Last Post</b></font></td>
  <td bgcolor="#111012" width="20%"><font class="stext" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Moderator</b></font></td>
</tr> 

See, my problem is that he has put all the forums in a table themselves, and I have no idea which template to edit, since it doesn't say!!