Theme development

Hi All,

I am very new to Drupal and am looking for some help with template development. All I need the template to do is have a static theme (header, footer) with a content area that is editable. I do not need any of the other functions / modules that are available in Drupal.

I have tried playing around with phpTemplate, but it seems to break when I remove the php variables that call the standard Drupal functions...

Any ideas how this is done?

Thanks!

I am looking to remove "post new topic" on the main forum taxonomy page (ie, www.mysite.com/forum). I would, however, like "Post New Topic" to appear on individual forums (ie, www.mysite.com/forum/1). Can anyone tell me which function I need to override or modify to accomplish this? Has anyone done this?

I have a page with a minimal amount of blocks, and therefore a short sidebar. This makes my footer apear in the middle of my screen. Is there any way to stretch the sidebar(s), so that the footer will always appear at the bottom of a browser window?

Hey,

I'm trying to find a way to rewrite the XHTML generated for primary links. I'm using PHPtemplate engine. The reason I need to modify the XHTML is because I'd like to add a class "first" to the anchor in the first list item generated for the menu, so it would look like this:

Hiya guys,

Am having a bash at creating a theme override for the drupal forum to make it look different....just wondering if anyone out there has tried this yet?

Am using drupal 4.5.2...and using phptemplate..

The objective is to create a forum.tpl.php override file (or a series of overrides if required) so I can play around with the a layout a bit more..

Thanks in advance for any tips..

Dub

I'm currently creating a theme, and wish to have the avatars/pictures not appear in the polls. Is there a simple way to do this in the css file?

Thank you in advance for your help!!