Billie, The style sheet is wonderful. It is a simple matter to change the complete look of your site. Your tables, links, lists, all the elements of your site will remain constant from page to page. Building a style sheet is not that complicated. I use a little free program called TopStyle which is wonderful as it helps you in the beginning to learn what each element does. For me it was great. But you do have to invest some time into the learning process. Your site is just that. Yours. You can do it any way you want. You can code your styles into your page. Your pages look fine. I like the colors you choose. In the end, it is the data that is the most important anyway. I have found that Pat's templates are built in stone. If you choose to learn, I would suggest playing with one of her templates. It will not fail. I've certainly put them through the wringer over the years....LOL Sheri aka. FamilyTwigs TwigTalk My blog Indiana Trails To The Past Jackson County/INTTTP

At 11:22 AM 2/28/2011, Sheri Bush wrote: >I use a little free program called TopStyle which is wonderful as it >helps you in the beginning to learn what each element does. Top Style Lite which is free can be integrated with FP2003 to act as the style editor. You can download it from http://topstyle.en.softonic.com/ Another one I found the other day which is also free is Free CSS Toolbox - Free CSS Validator, CSS Formatter, CSS Compressor http://www.blumentals.net/csstool/ I have NOT had the time to try it out as yet but it looks promising. Pat

This is getting blown all out of proportion. I'm not saying that style elements and CSS shouldn't be used. I have a video series on CSS and Style elements that I picked up. And I have been working on learning more about CSS/style elements when I have some spare time. I have incorporated some style elements into some of my pages to do things you just can't do with standard HTML tags. The web page editor that I use has a built in style/CSS editor but you have to know more about how it works to use it. All I'm saying is that for some things there is a simple HTML way to do it. -- "A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George Washington _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._