Theme development

My Spreadfirefox theme with css files from HowtoForge.com shows the book line navigation “previous.. up .. next” below of last block on left side. So that line is located distant from from the text related (book page). My project has many blocks on left side.

But others themes show that line near the text of book page correctly, so I think it’s not a PHPTemplate problem. HowtoForge site runs well, and I am using the same css files from them. I used FCKeditor to edit the book pages.

Do someone have a tip or explanation for this? I have Drupal 4.6.3.

So I read somewhere that in version 4.7 it would be relatively easy to create a theme like theonion.com and so i figured since its now beta2 i would start playing with it, but alas I am very new to phptemplate and haven't figured out how to do it all so im at the stage where i have the html, i just don't have the phptemplate stuff.

here is a link to the html,
http://www.silikonslackers.com/onion.html

Hi. I am currently using the flatforum module because it is decent. However, on a post, it won't validate as XHTML 1.1, while the rest of my site does. I can't find where to exactly fix these errors. Any help is greatly appreciated.
http://onj.andrelouis.com/hkc/site/node/21

Hi,
I'm having problem fix the main block's disply width. Could someone show me how and where to edit? tks

for example, i want to have

aligned to the left and having
left bar = 150 pix main block = 450 pix and right bar = 200

also, i believe i have turned on HTML enabled input.. but when i type in URLs.. still won't show as LINK.

could someone help me why is so? tks

Greetings!

I posted this question in reply to an upgrade question that was answered. Then I realized that this evolved into a theme design help question after posting so I am reposting my question here. Hope this does not offend anybody.

I have just finished porting my CSSimple theme to drupal 4.7.x. It is available from my site here.

CSSimple is a PHPTemplate based theme for drupal 4.7.x. It uses pure CSS for layout and handles both three-column and two-column layouts. I jiggered it to make it easy to port themes from wordpress, and have ported around 20 themes from a wordpress theme competition.