Theme development

I am creating a theme from a designer's mock-up. I'm running into a brick wall trying to change the output of a menu. I can't find good documentation on how to do this anywhere (and it's not for lack of searching!). I would appreciate your assistance on these questions.

NOTE: If I'm not asking the right questions, please let me know. I really want to do this the "Best Practices" way.

Hey, ive been working with drupal for awhile and I was wondering if anyone here
knows of any existing themes for basically art websites

i.e like a website devoted for an Image Gallery

Just wondering before i start working on it myself >.<

I want to create a custom block where the user can put a picture himself; so for instance he can change the picture on the frontpage that way.
I know php, I just dont know how to start or if there's already a module for it.
Can somebody point me in the right direction?

Thanks
Eddy

Hi there,

Just getting to know Drupal, i've found a 5 series theme that i like and i wish to use the Smarty theme engine in the finished product. I've got everything working with the supplied Smarty theme, but how do I go about converting a drupal theme to a smarty theme. I'm not afraid to "get my hands dirty" in PHP/Smarty but would greatly apprieciate any pointers to get me started.

Thanks in advance....

PS couldn't believe my luck when I found out that Drupal supports the Smarty theme engine, what a combination!

Hi.

I'm using a World of Warcraft theme I picked up from http://grafix-community.com/ . I made some small changes like removed the ad linking, and whatnot.

Now the only thing that bugs me is this theme does not use / display the mission statement on the page despite the settings in site administration.

So, my mission statement is filled in and I want it to display nicely on the page to anon, and logged in users. How do I go about doing that?

There are Drupal themes using YAML (http://www.yaml-fuer-drupal.de/), YUI (http://www.blkmtn.org/node/336), and Blueprint (http://drupal.org/project/a_blueprint) frameworks around, any thoughts from fellow themers as to their usefulness in the Drupal world?