Theme development

I've just installed Drupal locally, and played with it a little, so I'm a complete newbie.

I only found a rather old thread on tables as layout (dating back to 2002).

How can I find a theme that doesn't rely on tables at all and uses CSS (I don't know anything about PHP)? Eventually I'll learn how to create my own.

Three related questions:

- The Drupal website doesn't rely on tables at all but the default drupal theme included in the CMS does. Would it be possible to include a tableless theme in the next release?

Hi,

I have been trying to use the Blix theme, but on many pages, the sidebar ends up being placed at the bottom of the page after the main content. Does anyone know why this is? I have already tried the CSS fix at goodbasic.com, but it didn't work.

Thanks.

I am trying to get alternating row colors in image gallery listings (e.g. image/tid/16 (both gallery and image listings)). I've tried using $zebra in image_gallery.tpl.php but it doesn't work.

It seems like it should work like it does in taxonomy listings (e.g. taxonomy/term/40). The taxonomies actually use the summary version of the node itself, so I can use the $zebra variable in node.tpl.php.

But the image galleries don't seem to use the image node template at all.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Dreaded Internet Explorer, I have been working on a website and I thought id give Drupal ago and so far looking great folks really good to work with.

As I always use firefox I decided to test the bits I have done in IE only to find as per usual it doesn’t work correctly this might just have something to do with Microsoft not having something called STANDARDS.

Anyhow the nodes (or content on the pages) that have been published using full html or php appear half way down the page in IE only. Anyone got any idea on how to sort this!!! It’s based on the greenmarinee theme.

Was tidying up a site I'm working on and was using 2 recommended free website "testers"...

webexact: http://webxact2.watchfire.com
(this is really handy for accessibility stuff)

w3 validator: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.drupal.org

both throw up a lot of errors for my site and I was wondering how many errors I was creating (I was playing a lot with phptemplate) and how many were inherited.

As usual. I put scrollbar code at theme/kubrick/style.css, LIKE
body {
scrollbar-face-color:#123456;
.....
}
But it only affect the page scrollbar, the window scollbar with no work,
I also try to put this css tag inside style.css, question the same.
Besides, if each theme can have its own color scroll bar will be better, as I found
previous forum discussion, there are some other stylesheet within DRUPAL,
but outside Theme folder.