Theme development

I'm looking for someone to build a custom theme for a drupal project I'm working on. I'd prefer someone in the Mpls/St. Paul, MN area who has the ability to work onsite with me in Richfield, MN. Anyone? Anyone?

I've seriously considering using Drupal as the CMS for a large education website. However, I've been told that Drupal may not be able to accomplish tabbed navigation. I have redesigned the website, and I would like to incorporate a tabbed navigation scheme that is built with list items, for example here is the tabbed navigation for one of the pages on the new site [ http://www.mapleleafweb.ca/redesign/index.html ]:

<ul id="primary">
		<li><a href="../index.html">Home</a></li>
		<li><span>Features</span>
			<ul id="secondary">
				<li><a href="topics.html">Topics</a></li>
				<li><a href="elections/index.html">Elections</a></li>

				<li><a href="cartoons/index.html">Political Cartoons</a></li>
				<li><a href="involved/index.html">Get Involved</a></li>
				<li><a href="polls.html">Web Polls</a></li>
				<li><a href="authors.html">Authors</a></li>
				<li><a href="contribute.html#">Contribute</a></li>
				<li><a href="rss.html">RSS Feeds</a></li>

			</ul>
		</li>
		<li><a href="../weblog/weblog-template.html">Weblog</a></li>
		<li><a href="../forum/forum-template.html">Forum</a></li>
		<li><a href="../contact/index.html">Contact</a></li>	
		<li><a href="../about/index.html">About</a></li>				
		<li><a href="../search/index.html">Search</a></li>

		<li><a href="../help/index.html">Help</a></li>
	</ul>

Now, if you look else where on the site [ http://www.mapleleafweb.ca/redesign/index.html ] you'll see that the tabbed navigation changes depending on where you are located on the site. Can this be accomplished with Drupal, without using javascript, etc?

how to modify Arcmateria theme to enable drop down menu in primary links section?

A simple question. I searched and didn't see anything addressing this, although I'm sure it's here somewhere. I installed the 5.0 beta. So far, I like the way things look. I have just gotten my custom theme to look like I wanted in 4.7.4 and merely dropped that folder into the 5.0 themes folder. Of course, it didn't work without a little tweaking. Still, my tabs are spaced improperly, but that's another story. I noticed that the bluemarine and garland page.tpl.php are significantly different than bluemarine in 4.7.4.

Hello !!

First, sorry for my bad english, I'm french mothertongue...

My problem is the following : I work with a graphist who have created a design for my website.
In it design, menu and submenus are in separated blocks.
When you are on [menu] page, the menu is a simple text, else each menu is a href link.

When submenus for selected menu are displayed (and even a submenu is selected) the parent menu left a simple text.

I begin with drupal, and don't know which approach take to do it...

Please help! I have tried just about every css trick I can think of and can't get nicemenus to look how I want. The way it looks by default all the ul's/parent menu items are touching. I want to have them appear as separated boxes. I still want them next to each other (I use the horizontal view), but separated by a little space. I figured this must have to do with margins, but every margin I try appears inside the border and with the default background color. Any help/pointers will be greatly appreciated.