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Thanks for that, did what you suggested and it worked great! until I looked further? If you select the categories then the background colours change just like what I wanted and that works fine if I had products directly in the categories but I have subcategories and then when you select the subcategories (jackets for example) then it goes to the default because jackets has a different cat id?? Obviously I cant go thru adding a different cat id to the home.tpl file? Is there anyway of stating that whatever subcat of cat1 for example use skin1 and whatever subcat of cat2 use skin2 and so on??

Many thanks for your help so far Shan,