This subject of UBB and Front Page intigration seems to be poping up all over the place. Here's a solution that will fit your entire web-site (Including UBB or whatever else that strike you funny).
"( Cascading Styles Sheets ==>CSS2<== )"
The powers to be are aleady working on CSS-3 concepts and design. I think its a move toward completly coding web pages myself. XML and is well on it's way as soon as the rest of us catch up with it. It takes on allot of the power of SGML without the cost and complexity of coding.
UBB dabbled in CSS to a point (but they stopped for some reason), by using the /cgi-bin/Styles.file. The concept is sound simple once you understand True HTML tags and attibutes.
I posted something similar yesterday in the UBB Question Section. You can read the the post for further details:
How Do I Add The Navigation Bar On the Left Here's a demo of Intigration using CSS2:
2 Nav Bar Style 3 Nav Bar Style The Source Code for Intigration The pages aren't perfect and could use some tweeks for visual effects, but they are HTML 4.01 and CSS2 compliant (Even with the UBB forums added. That requires a little bit of UBB Script Modification though.
These two examples work on both IE v5.50.4 and Communicator v4.04.
The dynamic effects (hover-over href's, without java script, etc) are not yet enabled in Netscape as with several other functions (anybody suprised ???).
Here's the CSS2 compatability List:
Master List Well that's my 2 cents worth. We'll see what others come up with.
GB
