Theme development

Hi there!
I discovered Drupal about 2 weeks ago… and I simply love it. I had used other cms’ before and… this one is better, no doubts. But I have to admit the forum isn’t its stronger point (I was using phpbb up to now). In any case I’m determined to use Drupal’s forum so I’m trying to improve its look.

Hi all,

Drupal noob here, using a hacked version of Aberdeen Liquid (thank you, whoever made Aberdeen; you rule and I'm a hack riding on your coattails). You can see it here:

http://204.13.252.34/drupal_spineu

Two problems that I can't figure out. First, at high resolution (1510 px or above, horizontal), the lefthand nav drops BELOW the main content area in the middle, but not at under 1510?? Need to use a clear or something?

Ok, so I've managed to change the presentation of my content when viewing it by customising the node.tpl.php file, but is there a file I can modify to customise the look of the content creation form?

I'm using CCK but it doesn't give me enough control over the design of the data entry form.

Thanks for your help
Ben

I understand that I can override page.tpl.php with say, page-1.tpl.php or page-admin.tpl.php, but I want to do it for several pages such as:

page-admin
page-node-add
page-node-edit
etc

is there a function I can add to template.php to set the template programmaticaly based on the path to the page?

I'm trying to accomplish the above to replace the login button with an image using css. Problem is that the image's background, although transparent, is displayed as white against the user bar background. Using img src would be one solution but I need a css solution if there is one?

Warm regards,

Petter

Why are my apostrophes showing up as question marks in my tpl.php file?

> It’s

Will show up as

> It?s

Why is this?
Is there some template setting I need to set? or something on the server settings I need to change?

By the way this is content that is static in the page.tpl.php file.
Any ideas on how to solve this would be mostly appreciated!! :D