Theme development

I'm trying to insert a web banner in the top of my drupal site - my project requires me to get that figured that out first.

I'm not sure how to get started with doing up my own theme for the site - yes, for example, I've tried modifying the file xtmpl file in the "Blue Marines" theme, by adding the coding to where the links are supposed to be - tried doing that through dreamweaver, and uploading the file up to my server folder once again, but my banner doesn't appear. I've also downloaded the phpTheme Engine and tried some other themes but it doesn't work either.

hello all,

I'm working on two Arabic websites and I need some themes for them. I want something different and completely right to left from the ground up. One is a community podcast website and the other is a digg.com clone.

For the moment my priority is the podcast site.

If your interested let me know. Might be willing to pay for the service if I get a nice offer.

Hi Guys,

I was trying to change the default layout of how the image.module displays IMAGE GALLERY pages with Drupal version 4.6.x and was tempted to hack the image.module but decided to setup a template override instead.

The image.module is a superb module and the default layout is fine..I just wanted to put some extra appropriate (and dynamic) content above the thumbnails, but, I knew that once I had hacked the image.module I would be making life much more difficult at a later stage when trying to upgrade or tweak that ammendment even more.

I've got a real problem with the theme'd table output of Drupal.
None of the tables generated by modules (including core modules) have a unique ID or some sort of class associated with them!

This means I cannot apply any CSS dressing to the tables without doing it generically to all

My main requirement is to make tables width: 100%, because the cells always appear squashed up on Drupal pages.

I am trying to edit my $head variable and can not figure out where to do that. I'm using PHPTemplate.

Sorry for title this isnt a flame but a serious question, Ive only used drupal for a week but one of its major drawbacks are themes, or lack of them, and also the not very user-freindly theme customization guide. In the past few months ive used joomla, mamboo, wordpress and nucleus and its hard to compare. Wp and mam/joom have well over 500 themes and nucleus has a great theme competition going on right now. Its not only the amount,these guys plus several other platforms have very well written theme guides and support, some even have css editor extensions.