Is There a Way to Address RH Frameset Properties, like border?

Question

Greetings:
Where in the collection of RH files is the project frameset defined, and is there any way to change its properties?
One of the ugliest things in all of the RH templates is the frameset border. I'm NOT talking about how the frames are set, how wide or narrow, or what percentage of the window they occupy, or how many frames are in the set, or what pages are allocated to load into each by default, or how the are laid out. I know there's some sort of primitive interface for addressing such things, at least in RH 8.
I'm talking about the properties of the frames and the frameset, specifically the border, that fat sickly grey line that just barely works with the Titanium (black & white & grey) template, and with no other template. Is there a way to have no border? A thinner border? A different color border? Is this even supported in CSS or in current browsers?
Also, on the subject of ugly templates, is there anyone or any company out there which offers RH skin templates way, way better than those included in the RH box? That will custom build a skin based on your custom design? Or design one to match an existing support web site's design?
Seems to me all of these HAT's take ugly lessons ;-)
Many thanks.
stevenjs
"I am but an egg."
--Stranger in a Strange Land

Answer 1

"For the margins, open whtdhtml.htm and add a padding-left for the BODY. This will indent the books/topics. (Note that this is in an output file. Save the output file and copy it somewhere save. Paste the file in the output every time you generate it.)"
-- better still, go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2\Adobe RoboHelp 8\RoboHTML\WebHelp5Ext\template_stock/whtdhtml.htm. Of all the variable stuff in there, the body leftmargin and marginwidth are fixed values. Change them, and your Nav will enjoy some breathing room every time you re-compile in both IE and Firefox, no need to keep changing the output file.
"What do you mean by wrapping the titles inside the frame? No horizontal scrolling?"
-- Yes, no scrolling. You set the width for the nav pane, then let the book/topic titles wrap inside that. This were easy enough to do if I could find the actual file that is loaded into the nav pane, but it seems to be completely generated and not accessible (or what am I missing?)
If this were an editable file, you could put a table or div inside, set the width to the width of the frame/pane, and it would wrap. Actually, even if scripted RH should be doing this. Verbose titles are the most informative, crazy to keep them short just because the app won't let them wrap and to avoid the dreaded scroll bar. If they have to script-write that pane's page they should write a table or div container to the same width as the frame and let the nav text wrap!
Another question related to frameset/frames. I find that no amount of changing of frame tag properties in the .skn file produces a change in the border color (frameborder="1" bordercolor="#000000"), though I can remove the frame altogether with frameborder="0".
Curously, if I create a new frame in RH and ascribe topics to the panes and add a bordercolor to it, the border color shows up nicely. What gives?
And last but far from least, why is it not possible to create a new RH project and determine a different frameset for it instead of the default top toolbar, left nav, topic right? This can not be changed, either before or after a project is created? The create > new frame just gives you a framset topic, but has no effect on the project frameset.  What gives there??