Hi all - I've been using Drupal for a while and absolutely love it. This is an issue for me with Zen on Drupal 7...
Through the course of my use I have become something of approaching competent in CSS and can modify JScript to my hearts content. Despite my best efforts though, I believe that I am going to have to start editing the php of some of my pages. I could really do with some hand-holding through this as my previous efforts have been a disaster and the online documentation hasn't helped.
What I am trying to do is simple, edit the .php of a node type so that 80% of the fields are put in an additional div (I am trying to place names to the side of a photo). Afterwards I can use css to modify where the div appears on the page. Simple in theory and shouldn't matter that my php skills are non-existent.
Following the instructions I can find online I have done the following:
Copied node.tpl.php into my custom theme folder
Created a new file called home_pic.node.tpl.php ('home_pic' is the machine name of this node type).
The first problem I'm having is that after rebuilding the theme-registry etc Drupal is not calling my custom tpl.php file (I have tried printing nothing but this has no effect). Can anyone point out the problem with my logic for affecting the output of this node type?