good work guys thanks, could be what i have been looking for, like forever.

got it installed and working in my dev space, now i want to make my own templates, see if i can bend this thing to my will...

have you got a print out of the place holder tags for making themes? it would be usefull for us out here looking to develop some new layouts

thanks again

Simon

I'm working on writing up a theme "how-to" - until then, just look at how the existing themes do it. Basically, you've got the while loop and some functions that do stuff for each thing in it.

Also take a look at template-functions.php - the function names should be pretty self-explanatory.