BC wrote:Unfortunately, the link you have offered contains NO INFORMATION (really, I have already read that) about ways of integrating the whole forum into a particular site of an already existing design.... just to make it clear, my intention is not to change or add header + footer to the template.... what I would like to achieve is to make the whole forum appear in a cell of a table, which table is part of a very complex design....
I am patient, but it seems nobody has really read what my question is about.... I do not want to customize the forum, I want to make it appear in a cell AS IS
First of all, to reiterate what Connorhd said, please be patient. It's only been what, two days since you posted your question?
Now, on to business. I'm not all that experienced with integration (oh, wait, make that not experienced at all 
), but it would appear to me you have two options:
1) You say that you added necessary table tags to the header and footer, and thus the forum is now in a table cell, properly styled, but not properly fit to the size of the surrounding table, correct? Wouldn't this just be a matter of editing the CSS files to give forum elements a proper width?
2) Start over and do something like this instead (I'm presuming this is along the lines of what Connorhd was suggesting by pointing you to the docs):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html dir="<pun_content_direction>">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<pun_char_encoding>" />
<pun_head>
</head>
<body>
<!-- BC's layout stuff -->
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<!-- / end BC's layout stuff -->
<div id="punwrap">
<div id="pun<pun_page>" class="pun">
<pun_main>
</div>
</div>
<!-- BC's layout stuff -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- / end BC's layout stuff -->
</body>
</html>
Do you get the idea? Just replace include/template/main.tpl with something like that.
If you still have trouble, please remember that in order to help you, others need a decent amount of information about your issue. Especially when dealing with layouts, a link and/or a screenshot (preferably both, IMO) can be particularly useful.
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