Theme development

For the past week or so I have been working on a theme that I made mainly for bloggers that use drupal. I plan on having a series of themes for bloggers actually. I entitled the current one "BlogMetal"

I was kind of wondering how many people liked this theme and also what could be added or changed. All the images in the theme also come with the photoshop files so you can edit them whenever. the font of the title is OffensiveBold.

Is it possible to make a separate search form that excludes certain node types(e.g. only returns results found in flexinode-2 node types)? But I don't want to affect the normal search which I also need.

the theme that I am working on is almost finished and there is one thing that is bugging me! When I view my theme in IE it shows up fine but not in Firefox. which really sucks because I dont use IE! When I view a page that is a certain length the body background image offsets like 1px to the right. If you view the main page it is fine but when I view admin or an "add comment" page it offsets the body background image.

I dont know if I explained this well enough... I probably did not.

I am looking to edit the default grey area in the argeebee theme. I want to know how I can replace the grey header area with an image........that is, using an image as the background for the top/header area.

Please help!

Thanks!

Hey to all the drupal users and developpers,

I have just started about 3 months to use drupal and I am really happy of the results and I am working very hard to customize it the way I wanted to but as i see the other big sites that are using Drupal like Evolt.org or The Onion, I am saying to myself, man, my site could look so much better then it is now.

Using plain php theme files it is possible to add new theme-specific settings using {mytheme}_settings in the .theme file.

I'd like to do the same in PHPTemplate. Is it possible?

I've tried overriding {mytheme}_settings in template.php, but it does not seem to help (which makes some sense since I assume it's a different engine).