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I must be going blind. I can't see where you are going to get the header row (the blue row in Oxygen) from. Don't you need another list with just the column headers

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No problem. I ripped out a 40Gb drive not so long ago, its not even very old. I don't have any use for it. Getting it to survive the Royal Mail will be another matter. Email me and let me know where to send it.

I don't know the answer yet but I'm working on it. What I can tell you it that looking at your code you seem to have a closing div "</div>" outside the closing body tag instead of inside it. Fix that before doing anything else.

It gets worse. They seem to have replace PunBB with phpBB.

The following appears to be missing from your stylesheet

TABLE.punspacer {border: none;    width: 100%}

Because it is missing the table containing the new posts link is only expanding to the width of its content not the full width of the board. The link itself is aligned perfectly, its the table that out of wack.

Whats really pleasing is how quick it is. One of the forums has 88 pages but it doesn't seem to slow the board down at all.

Just as an experiment, try removing the Doctype declaration.

I read somewhere that the problem with IE is that it adds the width of the vertical scrollbar to the width of the content of the iframe. That means if the content is 100% of the width of the iframe and then you add the width of the vertical scrollbar you are bound to end up with a horizontal scrollbar. It seems that getting rid of the Doctype has been known to solve the problem.

Another thing you could try is put the whole board in a wrapper div and set its width to say 90% and see what happens.

Some good points. I agree page 4 is a bit cluttered. I will see what I can do. Just worked it out. Label the columns with leters A, B etc and then provide a key.

I started from the position that the most tedious part of changing the boards appearance was not editing the style sheet but rather working out which bits did what. You are right though, this doesn't help people who don't actually know anything about CSS at all and don't really want to know. I think the best idea, as you suggest, is a blow by blow tutorial showing examples of how to change one style into another. Maybe also a quick explanation of how to add a graphic logo which is something a lot of people will want to do. The existing style guide would then be released as a "Style Sheet Reference".

Read this
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/
They also have links to their intermediate and advanced tutorials at the page I have given you. Since you are designing a forum look out for articles on styling tables

Thats probably true. However, the purpose of PunBB as I see it is to provide an alternative for those people who wanted something light and fast which could be easily integrated into their site. I don't think PunBB was ever intented to be competing directly with IPB or phpBB, its a different market. When choosing a script people should work out what they need and choose what does the job. Taking one script that doesn't meet your requirements and then altering it so it is exactly like another script which would have been a more appropriate choice in the first place seems pointless.

What I have noticed though is that there are an awful lot of forums running IPB and phpBB using the default skin and hardly using any of the cute but non-essential features. I do wonder if people actually think what they really need before choosing a script.

That really is a nice looking site. I normally don't like portal style sites becasuse they are cluttered but somehow you have made a lot of information available and still kept a nice clean look.

Any chance of you publishing your code for getting the login to work since it is something a lot of people have been asking about.

I can't remember now how you were doing this. Are you using definition lists? I was just wondering because I saw a nice little article on their use at MaxDesign
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/definition/

The examples are worth a look. Some of the examples look very similar to parts of PunBB. Whether or not Definition lists are symantically correct seems to be up for grabs.