Theme development

I just got my drupal 4.6 up and running. I'm very new to this drupal let alone creating themes and modules. I have gone through the secontion on Developing for Drupal, but I still have no clue why I would need the engine and once I have the engine and downloaded, how do I use it? I can understand the part about modifying an existing theme...but to create new theme with the engine is where I got confused. What's the purpose of the engine, why need them, and how to use to help me create new theme? I'm currently using Dreamweaver Studio 8 to edit my website...but like to try Drupal.

I would like to change the label "Title" in my add flexinode form. Is this possible?

To be clear - I am not talking about the custom fields I have added but the uneditable required field "Title".
I just want to change the label for this field to something other than "Title".

I have successfully created a flexinode phptemplate but this has no impact on the form.

Hi everybody,

It's more or less 1 week that I'm tryin' Drupal, and I've discovered some interesting things.... but..... which is the best way to create a button menu for the navigation in the upper zone of the page?! I mean, I've created my module but I didn't find a way to modify or create the navigatio bar....

I can create a new block with all the node on the side, but is not the same -_-'

I'll really appreciate your help;
Thanks

For some strange reason the layout of my website is different when you're using IE vs. FF on the PC (untested on other OS's).

I'm using the Democratica theme, and when a firefox browser views the page, the taxonomy appears just after the submitted by section. When using IE, the taxonomy info appears just after the HR following the content.

Any ideas? (page source below)

Under defaultVB theme, I get double URL's added on the Forum image on Home page, Go back, and Reload links.

The properties looks like this under Internet Explorer 6:

http://www.temamu.com/http://www.temamu.com/vb3bluesaint/misc/navbits_st...

Incidentally, on a MAC with Tiger it looks like this:
http://www.temamu.com//vb3bluesaint/misc/navbits_start.gif

I am working on a theme for my website. Working on the template (page.tpl.php) is quite clear. But then there are parts which are not included in there. For example I can not figure out how to format the sidebar left for example.

There are included a search box, the latest articles, etc.

Can you give me a hint? I would like to be able to influence those parts of the website, too.

Kind regards,
Holger