Theme development

I just did a fresh install of Drupal, and downloaded the Leaf theme. It looks great in Firefox, but in IE, the blocks are all messed up; instead of appearing on the right beside the main content, they appear on the right *below* it - ie, however long the post is, the sidebar blocks start that far down the screen. Also, in IE, the blocks show a doubled set of <li> icons - the squares-and-triangles of Drupal's default menus, plus the little arrows of Leaf.

I've made a nice xhtml/css template, but I am having issues converting it to drupal.

I was wondering if there was anyone/any company willing to take my template and convert it into a phptemplate drupal template. I'm hoping to pay around $50.

You can check out my attempt to convert the template myself at techanddev.com

I have been trying to learn do it myself but I don't have time right now and I'm trying to get this site off the ground. Someone with some knowledge with templates could put it all together in a few hours.

Any interest?

I am trying to remove the fadeout from the FriendsElectric theme and extend the colored borders to the bottom of the browser window. I have found it easy to remove the fadeout (just delete the appropriate CSS!), but I can't figure out how to make the colored borders on the columns extend to the bottom of the page.

If I add this to the stylesheet, the borders extend exactly 1000 pixels from the header:

Hi fellow themers --

It seems like the "Navigation" block is kinda forced into Drupal's otherwise amazingly themeable system. I'm interested in designing some themes which do NOT use a hierarchical collapsable menu-tree for navigation and especially administration. Right now, it seems I can't theme-away the tree-style menu.

Does any module exist or is there any plan to untie Drupal from the hierarchical navigation system? I realize there's no direct way to create the same functionality as the tree-style design, but I'm thinking maybe abstracting the admin menu (and others too, but the admin menu is what really stops me from designing themes without a tree-style menu) into multiple pages, which should hopefully bring back the functionality of nested menus.

I'm thinking that if something like this does NOT exist, maybe it's worth adding a module or contributing to the Drupal core so one could automagically generate non-tree style menus by having Drupal generate multiple subpages that correspond exactly to each subtree in the tree-style menu.

Hopefully someone knows if this functionality already exists, otherwise I have intentions to implement it! 8-)

Do I sound crazy, or does this make sense? It's motivated by the fact there are a lot of wonderful web designs that are incompatible with the hierarchical tree-style menu necessary to administrate (is that a verb?) Drupal.

Hey guys,

Very new to Drupal but I'm jumping in head first. I've just created a new design for our website, along with creating tabless XHTML+CSS code. The code/layout can be viewed here:

http://www.washsq.com/beta/

Now, I need to somehow write a theme with PHPTemplate to make it look like that. Shouldn't be too hard I'm thinking.

However, I'm not even sure where to start! Are there any good tutorials on the net I should follow?

Is the PHPtemplate giving you the same amount of freedom you can get with coding a plain PHP template?