Theme development

Just curious, I'm wondering if there's some way to view a Drupal site with a new theme as the superuser without enabling it and making it an option to all the other registered users. It seems like that would be a nice feature, especially when theme developing.

I have recently finished re-theming my website and in the main it was all a nice pleasant and straitforward process thanks to the theme_* functions.

The only thing which I wanted to theme but was unable to easily was the links output by nodes and printed underneath the node content. In the main for general blog nodes etc this links output is perfect but in a couple of the modules ( the book and image module specifically ) you can end up but with a big long list of links which is quite hard to read.

Perhaps the explanation for these theme-specific links should read something like:

In the format: text:url; more text:url (//site.com for absolute urls -- leave off http:)

Bill

Can anyone tell me where the HTML which generates the logs under the Admin section is generated ? I have looked through admin.module, watchdog.module and statistics.module but can't seem to find anything likely in any of those.

What I want to do is add a CSS class to the initial

Hope this is the most appropriate place..

Trying to get banner modules working in a phptemplate based theme (box_gray) however it doesn't seem to work. Basically if it's in a block, I should:

return banner_display(5);

For xtemplate, the author provides a template:

http://www.tweakgeek.com/xtemplate.patch

However, I can't figure out how to do it with phptemplate...any tips for someone not knowledgable in PHP?

What is the best way to start building a custom theme for Drupal? I read in the comments of the theme documentation section that XTemplate is not a good choice- why? It seems a much more logical alternative to the large ammounts of PHP code. Where can I read more?