Hi Stu

Just wanted to chip in here - you've made the right choice in my mind. Artisteer is great for people wanting a quick solution but is a little heavy for certain things.

We always always create a standard HTML / CSS template and then add what's required for mojoPortal. Artisteer is simply an enhancement and adds a lot of heavy ish code that isn't optimal. If you've manual coding skills then you'll end up with a much better output by coding mojoPortal in by hand, plus you'll not have to "unpick" Artisteer code should you need to teak anything later.

Artisteer, in my opinion isn't the fastest way, it's merely an easier way for people willing to sacrifice some control over their code - people who want that "off the shelf" look, fee, backing code. I don't believe that's what mojoPortal is about and certainly if you look at some of the best mojoPortal sites out there, they don't look like the "unique" Artisteer templates. Remember, anyone using Artisteer still needs to learn howwo to tweak the code it creates, why not use that time to create a skin from your current HTML / CSS.

Good luck with the skin, I've actually drafted a blog post about this very thing - how to approach things so once it's up I'll pop you a link :0)

Best regards

Mark