Theme development

This is a proposal which picks up on Chromatic's suggestion in in a comment on the misc/drupal.css thread that there should be a documentation site for Drupal's class and ID output, ala' http://drupaldocs.org

I am new to developing themes for drupal and jumped at PHPTemplate as I am familiar with php, however I was wondering what everyone elses experiences were with PHPTemplate or any other engines?

I ask as I don't want to focus on PHPTemplate if support will not be continued in the future.

Hi! I want to refer to a taxonomy term's id number in a bit of PHP theme code. How do I access the variable? Is it $taxonomy->term[0], but I am not sure!

Thanks!

I understand that $terms gives me the title of the category including the link, but which variable gives me just the path, without the link. I want to attach it to an icon in my theme. Thanks!

I have noticed that certain fonts render differently in IE compared to Firefox. I would like to modify the definition
of one core element of my stylesheet (the "body" definition "font:..." line) depending on whether the user is using IE or any other browser. I consider this an attempt to work around an IE specific bug.

Can it be done? If so, how ?

Mike

PS: Installed drupal a week ago, and I *love* it. Using it for one workk related site at the moment, and if this is a success, I'll re-do three other sites to use it.

I have built up a theme and it seems to be almost complete, however the blocks won't echo out correctly.

I have added this to my block.tpl.php page:

  <h2><?php print $block->subject ?></h2>
  <?php print $block->content ?>

and thats all thats in that file, however the blocks still take up very little of the actual column width I have allowed them and I cannot seem to get it working. Does anyone have any suggestions?