Changing Layout of BI 7 reports (not through Themes)

Hi,
Currently we have a couple of BI 7.0 reports integrated into portal.
We have also used Portal Themes to alter the Look and Feel of the BI reports with respect to Heading colors, alternate row colors etc. But the scope of changing the Look and feel of BI reports from the Portal theme is very limited.
We are interested in changing the Layout of the reports in BI. i.e. unlike the standard BI format of reports as generated from the Web Application designer, we would like to change the layout as well.
How is this layout change carried out? Web Templates?
If so please give me some links/documents to kickstart that.
Please note Portal Themes is not the solution for us as it doesnt allow us to change the Layout in terms of structure of the report. e.g There are many rows returned by a BI query. Instead of navigation down to see the total, we would like to have the Total as a cell on the top
I havent got much of a reply as yet from the BI forums. So I thought maybe any Portal consultants having knowledge on this might help.
Thanks and Regards,
Prem

Prem,
This blog might be handy for you.
Playing With Css in BW Report
Cheers,
Sandeep

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