Theme development

Hi,

I have a CSS/XHTMl template that I want to convert into a 3 column drupal theme but the snippets of php theme, what they do and where I'm supposed to put them is turning out to be somewhat less than clear. Is there any way I can get hold of a basic list that says: "this is the code" -->> "this is what it does" so that I can make it work?

Our company is looking for a new CMS solution; and with Drupal's 2007 CMS Award this year, we are considering it as our next solution. My only problem is that I'm having a hard time finding the plethora of professional looking templates/themes that the Joomla community was able to provide (i.e. RocketTheme.com, Joomlart.com, etc.). I'm sure there must be professional, premium, commercially available themes for Drupal, but I'm not that familiar with the community yet. Can you provide some links to the top Drupal theme developers out there?

Thank you.

I developed my custom Drupal theme and I would like to
make it possible for the CMS editor to change the color
of individual menu links eg.

home (in blue)
about us (in red)
contact us (in green)

I tried to add inline css code in the "menu item title" field
but it just printed the code :

instead of changing the color of the individual menu link.

Any ideas or help is highly appreciated !!!

Thanks

I recently worked on a website project which requires switching between Chinese and English. It turned out the default drupal theming is very limited in terms of localization. The main problems are following:
1. Theme css doesn't have localization separation. Font 11 in English usually has very different L&F of Font 11 in Chinese. Not to mention other modules which has its own css ... A general theme engine which can basically write css import with language prefix/suffix seems to me a very core feature, (although it only took me to write 2-3 lines of code)
2. Block translation is very clumsy. It changes the html output from w/o translation and cost me to rewrite the block related css. This module probably can be improved. I tried to use translated string (function t("")) but the block title doesn't support php code and it doesn't use function t() for output.
3. Still haven't figure out view translation...any existing module or should I write my own?
4. In general, I think any input field (at least those don't support php code) should be saved as localizable String. That is not the case for most of the content type. Maybe I can use contemplate module to customize it? I haven't tried as it is quite a hack for those core content types.

I'm using the Zen theme. I want to place a banner add next to my logo, however there is a line break between each piece of content in the header. How do i remove these line breaks so that the logo and banner can sit next to each other? http://dev.marketanomaly.com/

I wish drupal has Joomla like themes...our themes seems to very boring :-). Is it easier to design them for Joomla?

I love drupal, just I wish we had more options to choo$e from.