To get a feel for what I'm talking about, go check out what I've already hacked out for my wife Erica. Basically, the CGI sets a cookie with a skinID, and then it changes the look (yes just like you thought) based on what the value of that cookie is. Erica is fairly content with the system I've already created for her (although I need to go add some more robust errorhandling...it was 5AM and I was tired), I'm interested in going further with it.

Namely I want to do some cool things with frames. But I just don't know if I can do it without access to the server-wide httpd.conf.

Another good example of website skinning is domesticat.net. However, she uses PHP to do her skinning, and can't handle the URI mangling that I want to do.

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