Hi, though I'm not entirely new to Drupal, my approach so far has been to say the least random and chaotic (due to some mental health problems). I now feel I need to get to grips with some basics having jumped straight in at the deep end.
As far as themes are concerned I've been using Artisteer, but am now not satisfied that I can achieve the unique and individual results I require. I am a little bamboozled by the various themes (frameworks) such as Fusion, Zen and Tao which claim you can modify and build upon to create your own unique themes.
If you look at for example www.parentpay.com, which is a design template I'd like to emulate, I can't quite figure out whether they use a 2, 3, 4 or more column layout.
I don't know if I can properly explain what I'd like to do, but lets say a 3 column layout with a sidebar on either side. The central main content area should now contain any layout variation of stories, articles (for the sake of it say 2 articles on each row as in certain areas of the www.parentpay.com web site), which can be selected and edited in-place by an authorised user.
Heck I'm struggling to explain.....I'm not sure which elements of what I want to do are theme based and which are module based, for example, do I use blocks, views or panels to achieve the layout and in-place editing functionality I want.