Theme development

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

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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.

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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/

On my current site, each of the side blocks is diffrent, so I want to know if there is a way to do it here in drupal.

Right now I am tring to make the theme box_gray more my own (Taking the advice from this forum).

If there is a way to do this, can someone point me into how to do it?

FYI, the theme that I want to get to will look something like iRotbots you can see it here....
http://www.contact-sheet.de/blog/index.php/iroybots-stained-theme/

Thanks

I want to move my blog to Drupal, I have a nice theme (http://www.bushsamerica.com) (WARNING: ANTI-BUSH site, You have been warned).

I love my theme, but b2E is not that great, so I will ask...

HOW hard is it to make a new theme, all of the drupal themes are very bright and chipper...

Is there a macromedia template or help?

Thanks for the advice...