Theme development

No matter what I do, I can't get the main body of the page to change.

I've tried including function node() in my theme file and making changes there - no change!

I've tried changing function node() directly in includes/theme.inc - no change!

I've disabled cache in Admin->Site configuration - no change!

I've cleared the cache on my browser - no change!

This happens on my local installation and on my remote instalation as well.

Is the node body being cached somewhere, or is function node() being overiden?

I am looking for the best way to fix a node on the page.



Currently I have my theme looking for a certain node->type, $node->name and when it finds that it renders it in a special block.



But now I want something like:

------------------------------
|                            |
| Header                     |
------------------------------
|             |              |
|  node 15    |  node 3      |
|             |              |
|             |              |
------------------------------
|    other nodes             |
|                            |
------------------------------

The issue is that node 3 gets rendered before node 15 and I am using css to compensate.



I am thinking of hard coding both nodes into the theme->header() function directly and then unchecking 'post on frontpage'



Any other ideas????



Thanks,

-Aaron

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Thanks
--
William

I'm developing a single user/administrator theme, but I haven't managed to get quite the configuration I want out of it.

Question 1: At the moment, when my single user/administator posts a story -- ("a static page") -- the user is the only one that can read it. Without logging in, non-users get access denied to this page. In contrast, the blocks show up, but they don't work -- for example the rss feed responds with an "access denied" to non-logged-in users.

I've noticed that as present, drupal is only capable of assigning either left or right position to a block. Are there any modifications planned to support more than 2 areas for blocks, perhaps by assigning either left,right or a value from 0 (or 1) to 9? I have plans for a 4 column layout, which at present I'm having to hardcode one of the columns into the theme itself, which will technically work but I'd much prefer it if I could assign blocks to that column as it makes things so much easier.

How do I exercise more control of the Syndicaton Box placement (the one with the xml gif inside)?

At the moment, I used the following code to place all the box elements (calendar, user account information, syndication):
theme_blocks("all", $this);
This is code taken from one of the examples. The core documentation doesn't exactly give me specifics about this function (docs say that it takes 1 arg instead of 2).

Any suggestions on just getting at one particular box element?

William