Theme development

Hi,

I'm Developing a new site based on Drupal. I checked most of the themes but for the compatibilty with different browsers i selected bluemarine because i already struggled with spreadfirefox,Everything is went fine ,but i'm not getting how to display --welome username-- message and a breadcrumb on the header section ,
Like This .How can i do the same with xtemaplate.xtmpl file in Bluemarine .Please Help me..

I am trying to theme the search_box() function in the system.module of 4.7 and I need to add a different CSS #ID property other than the default. I can easily see the theme_search_box() function and it's easy to pass that into template.php, but I need to change some fo the form items. How do I do this with PHPTemplate?

BTW, I just read the Forms API and the Quickstart guide, but still this was not obvious. For instance, I tried just creating a copy of both and adding 'my' infront of it and slapped this into template.php, but to no avail. Help?

Hi all. I'm trying to determine if a layout is possible in CSS (or tables for that matter).
The layout is kind of a 3 column layout, of which there are many examples online. I'm trying to achieve something that looks like http://willwyatt.com/wanted.png.
The overall width is 100%. The logo and nav are around 170px. The Ads section is 160 or pixels wide.

Is something like this even possible?

I decided to migrate my site using the PHPTemplate engine. However, I am a PHP novice and have a
few general questions before I proceed.
As always with a new document I tried to deconstruct the box_grey theme and learn how it works. Here is what is not quite clear to me:

Do all the $xxx variables refer to stuff that is entered in the admin section such as the links content etc?

$head for instance seems to be set by using the set_html_head and get_html_head -I´m not sure how to do that. Can you call and set metatags that way?

Can anyone wthink of a simpler way to put an image in a node heading (the height of both lines - title and submitted) than using nested divs and floats?

thanks
c.

I'm trying to use the Filtered HTML input format to prevent layout tags from getting in my custom front_page display and messing up the layout. However, it seems that somehow input formats are not working to prevent tags like

$search = array ('@<div[^>]*?>@i', '@<p[^>]*?>@i', '@<table[^>]*?>@i', '@<td[^>]*?>@i', '@<tr[^>]*?>@i', '@</div[^>]*?>@i', '@</p[^>]*?>@i', '@</table[^>]*?>@i', '@</td[^>]*?>@i', '@</tr[^>]*?>@i');
$replace = array ('','','','','','','','','','');
$teaser = substr(preg_replace($search, $replace, node_teaser($nodeloaded->flexinode_6, "Filtered HTML")),0,140);