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>Thanks for all the detail, Bob.
your welcome, Maybe some day Ill need your help. :)

>I do appreciate the advice and will use it. And CSS is something that I thought I would bypass, but now definitely will not.

For a two second view of what css's can do to your site,
check this out.
http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/index.asp

all colors styles are stored in a seperate file. much like your _base class's
in theory. change the base class, and everthing changes. while it not truly oop, it works sort of like that. Topstyle has a free version, thats the one I use to write css's

one last comment, just a vote for my favorite html editor, Dreamweaver ! I think they have a free download. and when I purchased it about 2 years ago, the packaged it with homesite. So I use both...Homesite.... well its just a little more old style windows ish,..works fine, Dreamweave, however is their flagship editor. To each his own. You wont go wrong with homesite...
Best of luck
Bob Lee