Location of Primary Links / Internationalization Flags

Hi there, good to hear that a belgium university is going to use my theme, as I myself spent 5 years in a belgium school (at St Luc in Tournai, or Dornick).

It looks like a very simple twitching, and the first way to do it that I can think about is a two step process:

1. Create a new region on top of the primary links and put the locale block in it
2. Change the position of the sidebar to make it higher.

how to:

1 - the custom region

You need to create a new region in two places : in your abarre.info file, and in the page.tpl.php file. In the .info file, you'll notice this:

regions[sidebar_left] = Left sidebar
regions[content] = Content
regions[content_top] = Content Top

after the last one, add a line like this:

regions[sidebar_top] = Top Sidebar

Then, in the page.tpl.php, on line 67, you can see this:

      <div id="sidebar-left" class="column">
	
        <?php if (isset($primary_links)) : ?>
	        <?php print theme('links', $primary_links, array('class' => 'links primary-links')); ?>
        <?php endif; ?>

this is where the left sidebar begins. We are going to create the region just at the beginning of the left sidebar by adding print $sidebar_top; like this:

      <div id="sidebar-left" class="column">
	
	    	<?php print $sidebar_top; ?>
  
        <?php if (isset($primary_links)) : ?>
	        <?php print theme('links', $primary_links, array('class' => 'links primary-links')); ?>
        <?php endif; ?>

Just to make sure it is updating in the theme cache, go to the theme page, and click on the bottom link 'save configuration'. Then, in the block page, you should now be able to assign the language block in the newly created 'Top Sidebar' region, that should be just on top of the primary links.

2 - sidebar position

If you feel like the left sidebar is too low, you can change its position by editing the style.css file. On the line #128, you should see this :

#sidebar-left {
	text-align:right;
	width:291px;
	right:330px;
	margin-left: -100%;
}

By changing the margin on the top to a negative value, you can push the sidebar to a higher position:

#sidebar-left {
	text-align:right;
	width:291px;
	right:330px;
	margin-left: -100%;
	margin-top: -50px;
}

Feel free to change the -50 value to whatever suits you best.

Hope this helps :)