Ok, I need to rethink my layout. What I want to do is have the skin function exactly like talkfreelance and the innovativeskins forum you just showed me. I want the header aka nav and grey bar to be visible on every page, but the side blue bar to only be visible on on the main forums page. I want it to disappear when someone clicks on a forum. Also how can one move the login box to the right side, and latest forum posts to the right side like that? Can someone please elaborate? I am very interestead in doing it this way now.

I also think I need to rethink my layout design, because the navigation hangs low. The low hanging nav will look odd without the blue bar on the other forum pages.

Thanks to everyone who responded to this thread, all of your input is greatly appreciated!