Theme development

I know that Manji is a single column theme, in looking at the code, I'm not able to pinpoint where I might be able to open it up for having the classic left-right columns.
Anyone have any ideas?

Lisa

So I think I am way confused about the order in which phptemplate works. In my node.tpl.php file I want to have a div that contains the number of comments posted on a particular node. I want this to be visible on the full view as well as the view that gives me a bunch of entries and the article stubs.

So I thought I would try something like "comment_num_all($nid)" But I can't even get the $nid variable to pass through into the node.tpl.php file.

Hi Everyone,
I was wondering if anyone had a good stylesheet they could recommend to be used with PDFView? The css that comes with this module is very basic (by the authors own comments), and sadly does not translate line breaks or even font tags into the document.

I think its a great mod but would somehow like to merge the site stylesheet with it so the content looks cleaner and consistant.

Thanks in advance,

Geoffrey

Using the default drupal.css fieldset style I seem to be having some problem in IE with a fixed width layout. In the new page/story/topic page where there are normally 3 fieldsets side by side, in IE on a fixed width layout the 3 fields clear each other. To see what I mean have a look at http://filterone.ath.cx/druprob.gif

I've noticed this on a few other fixed width drupal themes too, any easy solutions?

If I copy a theme to a new name in order to start modifying it, it doesn't load properly at all. I get a non-coloured page with no headers. I would have thought it should look identical to the original theme?

Cheers,
Jonathan.

I am working on a new theme for a live site. So I can't really make changes to the theme and test them without possibly breaking the live site. So I thought I would make a new theme and enable it only for my admin account. That way I would be the only one to see the broken content if I was testing stuff. But now that the theme is enabled, all my registered users can see it as an option in their user settings.