Theme development

I'm trying to springboard off of FriendsElectric for a site and am having some problems with it right off the bat on two items so far:

First There is an issue in Safari where certain portions of the mid section overlap the far right side:
http://www.hiptobefit.com/images_errors/Safari-1.jpg

I'm having problems (as most of the people using the spreadfirefox theme). I'd like to change the size of the block on the right sidebar. You can see what i'm talking about here. Does anyone have a clue on how to fix it?

Hello everyone,

I'm attempting to implement graphical tabs for my primary links in a customized theme. I'm using the lastest 4.7 beta, and working off a copy of bluemarine, doing incremental changes to the CSS to achieve what I want.

I have already reviewed:

http://drupal.org/node/31704

But I've run into a couple of problems:

1. The page.tpl.php code it refers to [ if (count($primary_links)) ... etc] that you need to swap out to differentiate the active tab appears to have disappeared from the latest incarnation of the bluemarine theme. Where has this gone?

2. As a starting point for customization, I've copied in the css code at the node referenced above into my stylesheet, and I'm using the the tab graphics from http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors. You can see the results here: http://www.whatdoesthatmean.ca which looks absolutely nothing like http://www.alistapart.com/d/slidingdoors/v1/v1.html.

At this point I'm not sure if that's failed because I've been unable to implement the PHP code change that's shown, or for another reason.

3. I'm also not clear, because the documentation hasn't been updated (I don't think - couldn't find it anyway) as to whether I need to download and install a theme engine separately if I'm using 4.7. I gathered from http://drupal.org/drupal-4.7.0-beta that PHP was the default engine and was incorporated into the Drupal core code, but obviously I could be mistaken about that.

Alot of my themes only give you like 500px space for the content or node. In the administration pattern alot of the pages there like settings page, for example are way too wide.

Is there an easy way to cram it into a fixed width?

Are those styles in misc/drupal.css I'm guessing?

Thanks

Jay

Hello,

I've been modifying CivicSpace's Declaration script all day and have become stuck on one part.

Any links that appear in menu Blocks (such as "Recent Blog posts" and "Who's Online") are stuck at #3366CC (51,102,204). I've managed to change every single other colour in the theme just can't find any trace of what relates to links within blocks.

A screenshot of what I mean is located at: http://www.theomen.co.uk/temp/linkissue.png

Using Drupal 4.6

Hi all,

Perhaps someone can point me in the right direction. I've developed a simple 3-column theme that's working just fine except for one glitch: when I go into the administer pages, I see everything displayed in my center column but the top portion text and navigation tabs.

As far as I can tell, those elements should just be part of the $content spitout. I have $content embedded in its own < div > in my page.tpl.php with little formatting except for padding & type, and the < div > isn't floated, so I doubt it's my CSS? I tried eliminating the < h2 > segment I have placed directly above the $content just in case; no go. Yet when I switch to a default theme, say Kubrick, I can see the tabs and text as per normal.

Is there some variable or piece of tpl.php I've overlooked that governs the display of the explanatory text and tabbed top menu of the admin pages?

Here's the relevant piece of xhtml:

<div id="middle"><div class="column-in">
				<h2 class="subtitle">un journal du jour</h2>
	                                <?= $content ?>
</div></div>

A snapshot of the problem:
http://cpe-72-224-179-5.maine.res.rr.com/gazetteadmin.jpg

I've searched through other themes to see where I'm going wrong, but only see $content on them as well. Damndest thing; it's likely something really simple I'll kick myself for. Can someone advise me? Much obliged!