Theme development

Hi, Im making a theme for my website: http://www.chips-n-bits.com using phptemplate.

Now this isn't directly related to it, but when i go to the page for "Submitting a Page" or "Submitting a Poll", the form elements go VERY wide, causing everything to their right to be shifted across to the right. They are in my opinion, overly large, with no need for it, and clearly leave no room for having a right sidebar as well as a left one, both at decent widths.

Hi all,

I am making my own theme with a merge between bluemarine and spredfirefox (learning).

You can look at my current progress (if you can call this progress) here http://www.salsamontreal.com/montrealsalsa

I can see two major problem for now...

Hello fellow Drupals!

Ok, let me be honest...I'm a Mamber...but I'm very interested in Drupal. I am already highly impressed by how simple and integrated Drupal is. What I would like to know is this:

Take a look at the site: http://www.wbgl.org
I am the new webadmin for this site...however it is, for the most part, static HTML galore...Yuck!

I am looking to convert this to a CMS. I have used Mambo in the past for other projects, however there is a very simple visual element to this site that I wish to capture. I found that in Mambo it was going to take a good chunk of source editing (as far as I have found) to accomplish.

Notice on the main page that all the images have a border around them. Also to the left of all the text entries there is a vertical black line that accompanies the lenght of the text. Collectively this is what I would like to accomplish for all entries on the main page. Very simple in HTML.

The problem with mambo is that the WYSIWYG editors had limited control over how your actual entries layed out as far as formatting is concerned. I know I could have stuck with making purely HTML entries in Mambo w/o using a WYSIWYG editor, however I'm looking to allow non-coders at this station to update parts of the site themselves.

This brings me to Drupal.

How extendable are Drupals themeing mechanisms? With Mambo I would have had to edit the way the data was stored in the SQL tables. While this is something I could have done, I wish to keep this conversion as time-efficient as possible.

just a quick note on the above theme, which is broken in internet explorer, the right side some css adjustments:

here is our revised code

	#sidebar {
	padding-top: 30px;
	width:240px;
	float: right;
	position: relative;
	right: 5px;

	}
	#wrap > #sidebar {
		float: right;
		width: 205px;
		
	}

Apologies if this has been posted before.

Is there a way child-themes (i.e. subfolder themes) to have phptemplate check the child theme directory for overrides first, then look in the parent theme folder, like it does with style.css files?

The reason I ask, is that I have created a theme family that that offers several different layouts. The only differences between them are the style.css(minor changes) and the page.tpl.php. One is a 3 column, one is a 2 column, etc. All the other tpl files( and there are a lot) can be shared.

Hello,
i've just started with drupal (4.6.3) and I'm making a few sites with it developing themes for each one on PHPTemplate engine. I am having problems with primary and secondary links. No matter how many links I create in the configure menu of my theme the $primary_links and $secondary_links arrays consist of a single element containing only the last link in the input forms.
It seems like the configuration menu for phptemplate themes keeps the information but I cannot get the full array into my $primary_links array in the theme's page.tpl.php file.