Theme development

hi,

i am a newbie on drupal and trying to customize chameleon theme. My probleme is, after added tagadelic and privatemsg modules my end of content started to looking like this:

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7789/drupalcaptureze2.jpg

is it possible to put them one under the other like:
by skkd at 2007...
write to author
tags

or user info and the date under the post title?

how can i do it?

thanks a lot.

Hi,

I am working on finetuning our theme that we based on the Zen example theme (both in layout as well as 'files on disk'). It is already online and you can find it at http://www.pegasusvolleybal.net/.

Problem: when you compare IE6's and FF's rendering, you will notice that the title bar of the topmost menu block in the righthand column of blocks/menu's is missing in IE6.

Prelim analysis: I have a vague gut feeling that this is probably a boxmodel problem because when I add even the tiniest 1px bottom-padding, all menu and block titles disappear. However, I have been looking at the css for several evenings now and I really cannot find anything of setting a height (related to bottom padding) for either the entire column or for that particular block.

The site validates in terms of HTML and CSS (w3c validators) so it doesn't appear to be a bug of forgetting to close a div or something like that.

From what I have been reading about boxmodel and quirks/standards mode, from my analysis of the doctype thingy, I think IE6 should run in standards mode (and does that then imply that the problem is not related to the boxmodel issue)?

Here's the issue...

Creating a new theme involved a few days of work. How can I let my production site online and still able to test run my newly created theme? At this stage, I always have to set offline and test run my new theme.

Hello,

I searched this forum for about one hour, so here it goes:

I am trying to display variables from the node (title, author, URL) in the comment area, but just can't. I know I have to override the hook in template.php, but just can't do.

Essentially, I would like to add:
- A link in the comments area that is a permalink to that specific comment (I know it only provides an anchor, but even that will do)...my theme does not have it.
- the primary term associated with the node the comment is in...

Hello,

I know I have been asking for a lot of help around here recently and I really appreciate what people have done for me. I really could n't have done this without the support of these forums and hope that I can be of some assistance in the near future.

My most recent problem is really bugging me and I have tried everything. In my header I am trying to display a modified site name, my nice menu primary links, and the search bar, all in one horizontal line.

When I put the code for the menus after the modified site title, the menus appear below the title instead of to it's right and completely mess up the layout of my page.

<div class="clear-block" id="header">
  <?php print $search_box ?> 
  <?php if ($site_name) { ?>
    <h1 class="site-name"><a href="<?php print $base_path ?>"span style="color:#281400">open<b style="color:#669900">eco</b>source</span></a>
    </h1>
  <?php } ?>
<?php print theme('nice_menu_primary_links'); ?>
</div>

Is what I am trying and is messing up the site. (I now have the <?php print theme('nice_menu_primary_links'); ?> above the site name at (test.openecosource.org) I think something must be wrong with my site name, so can anyone identify what it is?