uhm.. this thing IS php-generated xhtml... And it makes use of CSS style sheets too.... And you dont want an external stylesheet if you want users to customize their styles ;) For customizing styles on a per-user basis you want to be able to import the users style sheet fr0m the database and put it in the header of ur xhtml page (that's by far the easiest approach anyways). It's custom programmed because then they can make it specifically for the purpose of this site! So they can make it do whatever they want and have the code easily interact with any other bit of php site they might be programming whenever needed. Ok, theoretically you COULD program that onto an existing platform also ofcourse, but you would spend ages getting as acustomed to another persons code so why not spend that time coding something that exactly fits your own taste and style? Also, tech-savviness does have to do with state of the art. How often you hear people say "hey your site isnt working", because they dont understand they need to get a flash player/a newer flash player, or "the movie didnt work" because they didnt have an up to date codec at hand and didnt know where to get it. The same way with state of the art web architecture. With a large community like this one you just dont really want to have to tell your members "ok to view the new version of our completely css generated table-less website correctly you need to install mozilla firefox or internet explorer 6 because it doesnt work on internet explorer 4". Upon which your non tech-savvi user will say "but internet explorer already came with my copy of windows98". Oh, and i know that stuff about php and tables and client side and server side etc. I make a living building (custom made ) php sites. I named php and tables as tools to use for making your website. You can make a table based design or a css based design or a frame based design or combinations of it. State of the art would be completely css based. Traditional would be table based. p.s: 1st out of the box is old. then custom is re-inventing the wheel. is this a case of doing it wrong or wrong?

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