Theme development

Hello everyone!

I am a novice in Drupal CMS. I have studied a lot of HOWTOs, SNIPPETS and manuals on this system but I still have got no clear understanding of how some things are done in this CMS. For instance, I faced with trouble of changing the layout of header/footer regions. I look in include/theme.inc file and found the piece of code that is responsible for outputting the footer variable in page.tpl.php in my theme. It looks like this:

Hi,

I'm try to customize my search results page, specifically the part that shows the results.

<div class="box">

I need some way to target this box from my CSS, the problem is, this same class is used on other pages. If I could toss a class in the body tag, or simply rename this class, it would be great.

Anyone h ave any ideas or examples?

Hi, I'm trying to style drupal's standard navigation but ran into a problem I can't trace.
See here: http://www.wearecamping.nl/logopedie/?q=node/5

I'm a newbie.
Sorry if this is in the wrong forum. And sorry if this is already a known issue.
Basically I'm using Garland and when I click on the full screen button in IE to reduce the size of the screen the title disappears. My logo remains. This behaviour is not present in Firefox.
Has anyone discovered a work around? Don't you love the "features" of IE!

I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a relatively empty theme. I have a custom CSS (designed for HTML) I would like to use (so if it can load that great). I need a top bar, then a side bar with a main area for text/news, then bottom bar.

I have images I want to load in also.

My question is I guess... should I learn how to write my own theme (since I already have one in ASP/HTML with a CSS) or does anyone know any empty theme I can customize?

I've been looking through all the themes available for download and lots of them say they are strict or CSS/non-table driven, yet when you look at the source they don't seem to be. A prime example is the Litejazz theme (which I really quite like), which uses a table for the layout of it's main container after the header, yet the theme will validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict.

How can a theme that uses a table for it's layout be classed as CSS-based rather than table-based and validate as strict?