Theme development

Hi all!

Im just new to Drupal and I'm not a good PHP programmer. I just want to make a "home page" of "front page" like that of the Drupal Site where 1 "boxed" block of content is "static" and below it are story pages.

Im using Danger4K theme. It has 3 columns - left side bar, content area, and right side bar. Please give me a hint on what to do...what file to edit and the like.

Thank you.

Can anyone tell me what the snippet would be if I just want the link that says "view recent blog entries" in the profile page rather than a list of recent entries, which is what the related snippets have. I'm running on 5.X, but I've created a custom profile, which has me starting from scratch and building using the snippets. I'd like to add it back in, but don't know how. I'm sure it's something simple, but I'm not very good at writing php code from scratch.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

I originally posted this under post installation but I didn't get any help, presumably because it (I believe) involves modifying CSS or node.tpl or something outside the realm of most common post installation problems.

Since everyone was so helpful here when I was modifying my greenhouse theme, css, etc, I thought I would throw this out here and see if I got any responses. I believe my solution lies within modifying css so it might be right up the alley of someone here... anyways...

I am trying to use the blog feature as an event listing. I do not want to use the event module because the calendar etc are very unnecessary for my purposes. Basically we run 1-3 line event teasers such as:

"Good Company LIVE" on WKYC TV News Channel 3, will be interviewing designer Laura Mineff on the subject of "Wedding Gifts". The segment will air at 10:00 am EST

There is no need to have a calendar as it looks best in occasionally formatted or plain text.

Hello everyone,

I i would like to make a custom home page that only displays the login block and nothing else.

I am sure that it is located somewhere on here but i havent been able to find it.

Could you please tell me the php snippit that i would have to use and what the file and location is called.

Thanks in advance,
Nate

I am developing a charity site here: www.upperbuckssertoma.org

Using firebug, take a look at the bottom of the page. See the 15px-20px space? I CAN'T GET RIDE OF IT! And believe me people, I am no novice when it comes to CSS! (Check out my stylesheet :-) /sites/all/themes/sertoma/style.css)

I have narrowed the problem down to this. Search for this HTML:

Hi - I'm using CCK (but I think thats irrelevant) - in the node template I've used a conditional to display a field (#1) if there's data in that field and not another field (#2). If #1 isn't added then #2 is supposed to show.

This works fine - except when there is originally data in field #1 which I then go back and remove from the node edit form and save. The result is that the empty fields must still be registering something (even though nothing shows up) because field #2 doesn't show either....