Theme development

I'm wondering if anyone has used an alternative to GoLive on the linux platform to see xtemplate structure and edit it. I have bluefish and screem (relativley the same) but they don't display in tabular column format.

Hi guys,
I have read the documentation regarding the xTemplate system and I am having trouble finding a listing of {tags}.

Where can I find a detailed discusson reguarding what tags are out there or how to construct my own?

Thanks!

I want to use the $terms variable (taxonomy terms) in the pagetemplate of phptemplate. This show in the node template in the box_grey theme so I thought just using it would be okay. Well that did not work. so I tried to add the code used in the engine to set the node variables to the page template. this did not work either.

How do you best accomplish adding variables to a template?

TIA

I'm making a theme with the PHPTemplates engine. I'd like to be able to alternate between two different classes every time a an item appears on a page. For example, with the teasers that appear on the front page:

<div class="node class1">blah blah blah</div>
<div class="node class2">blah blah blah</div>
<div class="node class1">blah blah blah</div>

Is there an easy way to make the class switch for every instance of an item like that?

I went to my site and Bamm! The whole CSS layout was trashed and the HTML body and other elements would not render in the browser. So thinking that it was a MySQL problem I ran emptied the cache. Nothing. Ran the backup. Nothing. I changed themes to bluemarine. Better but many lines were stilll missing. I installed the default chamelon theme since I was using a modified one. Nothing same thing. Since my internet connection died earlier I decided to set up on localhost and try some new stuff. I installed the interlaced theme on a whim. Whoa! the whole thing worked as it should.

I couldn't get the site slogan to display using the chameleon theme. I added the following to the chameleon.css template and it seems to work.

#header .slogan {
font-size: 1.2em;
font-weight: bold;
}

I'm not at all an experienced programer and I'm sure others will have better fixes but I thought this might help someone who is having the same problem.