the answer has been staring me in the face !!

the problems with the site !! yes, the answer has been there all along, but i was too dense to figure it out on my own.

all i had to do was ask Rico for the origial design of the site, and viola ! he's emailing it to me tonight. this time i won't mess up up the original design and i can finally get going on the content.

YAY !!