Theme development

Im looking to isolate and theme the contents of the comment/reply form.
Is there a function that allows this in phptemplate?? i searched the drupal site and was not able to find any documentation on how to theme this seemingly simple bit of content. anybody done this?

I have www.revolutionmusic.net/drupal and I am trying to make it look more visually pleasing for the visitors.

Previously, I was using PHPNUke and you can see the theme (fiblack) that I had modified for it here http://www.revolutionmusic.net

I would like to make my drupal theme look more like my PHPnuke theme with the orange borders around the posts, etc.

Any help would be appreciated, I am a guitar player not a coder ;)

Anyone has ideas how to implement pager -Drupal's and theme-

[next page] [previous page]

and page numbering [1] [2] [3] ...like the examples on this sites

http://www.dexigner.com/graphic/news-4.html

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/09/business/wireless10.php

After seeing so many people complain about Drupal's theme engine and it's inflexibility, I decided to try for myself and convert an existing Nucleus theme to Drupal. I used bluemarine (phptemplate version) as a baseline.

http://www.lassiter91.com/

Here's my experience:

1. Getting the basics done is pretty simple. It's easy to setup a container and set the global look and feel.

2. The problem is when I tried to theme items like navigation. I found that even ul and li styles are defined in a way not easy to change.

3. The biggest issues is when I tried to split out things like "date posted," "posted by," and "read more" (which I mentioned elsewhere.

4. I figured I would have to heavily edit the style.css but it turns out I had to edit page.tpl.php, node.tpl.php, block.tpl.php, and comment.tpl.php. That's pretty much each major theme file.

Hey all,

Just started playing around with Drupal and have a site mostly up and running. I decided to use the Slash theme posted here for the site, which looks fine for the most part, but doesn't display the user picture in nodes and comments. So I wanted to edit the code to do that, but I'm not sure how I can get the user picture for the author of the node/comment. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

miscreant

A good tutorial on customising K2 theme

For the less php savvy; Its for WordPress K2, nevertheless it will show you through the css and you can hack some into page.tpl.php too

http://www.paulstamatiou.com/2005/12/28/customizing-k2-part-1/
http://www.paulstamatiou.com/2005/12/28/customizing-k2-part-2/