Theme development

Does anyone know how to make the title of a node link to that node, for example on drupal.org "Drupal 4.4.0 release candidate" the title is a link to the node. I had help from another user with this issue, but I couldn't get it to work properly.

When a blogs title was clicked, it would link to /weblink/goto/### when it should link to /node/view/###. This would bring up a 404 error. But if a weblinks title was clicked it worked fine.

I am new to css but I have been trying to use css to insert an image into a class.

.buttons {
border: 1px solid #999999;
background-image: url(/themes/xtemplate/iis/twor_graphics/grad1.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: left top;

For some reason it doesn't work. I think the the url address is wrong but i copied and pasted it from where I source my banner/logo and then changed the name of the image file:

img src="themes/xtemplate/iis/twor_graphics/twor_logo1.jpg" alt="Logo"

I am many hours into the design of my customer's web site:

http://wpi66.com

My customer wants a search bar added in the header on the right hand side, (similiar to the one in xtemplate) it would involve way too much work to ditch interlaced in favor of xtemplate purely for the search bar.

Can someone instruct me on what needs to be done to insert an xtemplate style search box into the interlaced theme??

Many Gratious thanks in advance!

Sadian

P.S.:

I suppose I should make this clear: I'm not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination. But on my site using Drupal, http://www.pennywit.com, I would like to play with rearranging the way that nodes are displayed. For example, I might want to put the date or taxonomy terms above the article's headline. On a site using Xtemplate, which file should I edit to accomplish this?

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I am a web designer, not a programmer. That said, I have development skills, the ability to work within languages like PHP (although I am nOOb to PHP), am familiar with XSLT processing, XML storage, and the like. But I am an expert with CSS and the rest of the presentation.

I really like drupal but xtemplate seems cumbersome, marvin is stuck in 2nd generation web design practices... I'll have to check out Chameleon. Thanks for the tip.

Hi all,

I'm working on a 4.4/cvs theme on a 4.4/cvs core and want to be able to customise the display of the home page.

The specific effect I'm after is being able to display the first, say, 3 nodes (teasers) (ordered however) on a main page in one way - ie by one them method, then pass the rest to be displayed a different way.

In fact almost exactly as described in another post called 'Best way to fix nodes on a page'.