Theme development

Dear,

Drupal is quite new to me. Based on chapter 8 of the book "Pro Drupal Development" (J.K. VanKyk and M. Westgate), I made my own PHPTemplate theme which works fine. That is, the lay-out of the screen is what I need.

Hi all, i want to theme my cck output fields..,i already found a tutorial but its not 100% working for me :(...

these ar my fields:
field_sterke_punten
field_zwakke_punten
field_conclussie

now the following tutorial explains i need to replace the underscore by a "-" http://drupal.org/node/153465

this is what i got in my css:

Hi there,

quick question: Is there any way to place the preview in a different place, for example on the bottom of content? In General the Preview can be found on the top of the form, and it's placed with print $content, so is there something like print $preview?

on my band's website, http://notetoselfdontdie.com/members/

the formatting on the main page has suddenly changed...

i recently posted 2 new items and the width of these has for some random reason is now wider than the 500 pixel width that all the previous posts have been...

and it is now pushing the right side menus over and down...

i haven't changed anything on the site, on the theme or any code or any settings... so why are new posts now doing this?

Hi all..
i'd like to change something in the teasers of my nodes, but i don't know how, because in the code the teaser is wrapped in a variable $teaser.

For example i'd like to use only the terms of a vocabulary and to link them to an image (they will be the categories), and use free tagging at the end.
I've made a field with cck for the introduction of my stories. In the teaser i'd like to view only the introduction and not the first lines of the body... but i don't know how...

ok, you guys are probably going to hate me for this, and it has probably been explained too many time already, but I cannot exactly find a clear cut description.

I spent some time looking for the perfect template to start from, but unfortunately, it is not a Drupal theme. So I have to convert it to such. But the question is how?

This is the XHTML file with the template: