Theme development

I am looking for someone to help me create a theme for my high school.

Can I use multiple templates with Drupal? For instance, I would like site visitors to see a specific template that has all our ads and stuff in it, and the administrators should get a clean and simple default template. I saw something mentioning multiple templates but it seems whatever template I set is used for both visitors and editors. Then again I've been up way too many hours, so if I'm missing something obvious just slap me in the right direction. :)

What's the best approach to get content in with images wrapped with text and also, two columns for text?
I suspect you may say htmlarea, but I've had problems getting that to work with 4.6 (not ready?), and in 4.5 on OS X panther.

I've found a very intersting XHTML/CSS Template here: webproducer.at.

The template is able to generate 1 (left or right),2 or 3 column pure css fluid layouts.

One can change the layout either in code like this:

A lot of the themes for phptemplate only have one set of links (usually the primary links). I know that the SpreadFireFox theme as well as the Marvin_2k theme only allow for one set of links.

I spent a little time today and figured a way to combine primary and secondary links in a fun way. I wanted my primary and secondary links to be on the same row, but simply aligned to different edges of the screen.

I first opened page.tpl.php and found where primary links were rendered. This is what I found.

 <?php if (is_array($primary_links)): ?>
    <ul id="main-nav">
      <?php foreach ($primary_links as $link): ?>
         <li><?php print $link?></li>
      <?php endforeach; ?>
    </ul>
  <?php endif; ?>

I changed it to this:

  <?php if (is_array($primary_links)): ?>
    <ul id="main-nav">
      <?php foreach ($primary_links as $link): ?>
         <li><?php print $link?></li>
      <?php endforeach; ?>
      <?php if (is_array($secondary_links)): ?>
          <?php foreach ($secondary_links as $link): ?>
	     <li2><?php print $link?></li2>
          <?php endforeach; ?>
      <?php endif; ?>
    </ul>
  <?php endif; ?>

By making this change I added a condition that checked for secondary links, and if they existed, they were printed under the div tag "
," which is a new tag I created.

The
tag is exactly the same as the

Or is it PHPTemplate issue?

I tried to install the SpreadFireFox theme onto CVS version, and I got the following error when I apply the theme.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function link_page() in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\drupal\themes\engines\phptemplate\phptemplate.engine on line 372

This site is running on IIS, with PHP5 and MySQL4.x

Thank you for any feedback or pointers.

p.s. I am testing out Drupal for a non-profit organisation, which Drupal books pages make a lot of sense.

Ngoh