...But I didn't want to clutter up the general or chit chat folders and wasn't sure where else it should go.

What am I doing wrong here? My signature image isn't coming out:

<a href="http://www.forum.evolvingthoughts.com/">
<img src="http://www.evolvingthoughts.com/ETminiLogo.jpg" />
</a>

hmmm....maybe that's the problem...let me check.

I don't see anything in their FAQ so I've got them holding me on the phone.

If they don't let me put images in my sigs, that's it. :@ I'm getting lunarpages.

Thanks, good idea about reducing white space.

I am planning on removing the green text.

It's the coloured-ball-thing that's too big in my opinion. If you make it only as tall as the text (shrink it, don't make the text bigger) it'll be better.

I actually took the liberty of fiddling with them myself. Hope you don't mine!

You can keep the bigger one and use it as the logo for your forum (as we do the bee here) rather than the generic Beehive theme.

Thanks...I like those ideas. I don't mind you playing around. I don't have much time to do it, myself. Eventually I want to take the idea and have each one of the circles be something different...links or graphics or something...maybe as a start page to my whole domain...not sure, yet.

How do replace the beehive logo with mine? And could that also change the whole strip along the top?

When I go into my ftp and browse around I see folders for each of the six styles and inside each folder is a CSS style sheet. That's it. No extra paths after HOME except the style name folders and the style sheet and a small text file with what I've named the style.

When I type in the paths in the above post (after my domain paths, of course), I get a 404 error.

I am a little bit lost, though I thought I had actually understood your post.

I would be willing to trust you with my ftp access info if you think it's something you could do (and don't mind doing) easily. (Sometimes it's easier to do these things and then show what you've done and then I can understand it.)

another thing:

How do I get my little logo up next to the URL in the browser like where the little bee is?

The little bee next to the URL is a favicon, as they're known. You need to make a 16x16 image and save it as an .ico file. Then upload it to /images/favicon.ico and you should be away, I think.

As for your styles folders having just the css file in, I think that's normal - a style without a defined top.html just defaults to the top.html described in Matt's (1) example. If you want to change the top bar for all your styles, change that one.

Sorry, should have mentioned that the folders might not already exist and you may have to create them yourself.

If you can browse your FTP and find the style.css that is in /forum/forums/HOME/styles/e3d8bd/ then you're on the right track. That e3d8bd folder is where you need to place the top.html (the banner) for your current style. If you can't see the e3d8bd folder then something is amiss.

If you still want me to do it for you I can do, no problem.