Theme development

Hi everybody. Is there anybody who knows what kind of theme is behind http://association.drupal.org/??
Very very interesting.
Bye

I'm struggling to get a handle on how to create my own regions in Drupal 6. I've searched high and low and read tutorials here and elsewhere, but somehow cannot find a clear step-by step introduction to how regions and themes are built, in a way that a Drupal newbie with basic XHTML/CSS/PHP skills can understand, and a general explanation on how that theme is managed and changed at the sites other layers. Does anyone have any links or suggestions to these kinds of tutorials? Would buying Pro Drupal Development help?

We are having a problem with getting the theming function and template for our views to work

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This is the context and background:

We are building a news-site, newspaper style.

For this we are trying to generate a View for our front page that generates just a thumbnail-sized image and the title from each submitted article, like in this example:

http://x-ray-mag.com/images/screenshot1.jpg (screenshot from cnn.com)

We define the View with the fields we want to show.
Using Blocks we can get the View to show in the right position on the pages we want.
So far. so good

Now to the issue at hand:
We would like to change the looks of View and be in full control of its style, placement ect. In other words be able to apply some css. For this use the Theminq Wizard as explained here: http://drupal.org/node/42597

In this explanation it also says (quote) "It generates code for your template.php and a viewname.tpl.php which you can drop right into your theme directory. You can then make adjustments to this"

Following these instructions we then generate the codes - and a stylesheet for the view - and upload in the same directory where the other templates and .css files are placed.

And nothing happens.
The View stays the same

I have put together a simple snippet that lives in my page.tpl.php file. It pulls a node reference off of the page and then uses node_load to place a link of the referenced page.

$research_nid = $node->field_field_research_area_refer[0]['nid'];
$research_area = node_load($research_nid);
print '

Our Research

';
print ' path . '">' . $research_area -> title . '';

This works fine as long I am i logged in a user#1 or a "site admin" with full access.

Using several php snippets found under support, I have been building a custom "user_profile.tpl.php" file to override the profile template on my site. I am very happy with most of my progress so far but when I do use these snippets, none of the "searchable" fields are clickable any more. The url field is not a link any more either and I can't figure out how to add "instant message" and "buddylist" functions to the custom layout.

I have always been impressed with drupal cms structure but feel that the standard themes out the box do not match the impressive back end. I have been working to create a front page that takes Garland to a higher level. Please follow the link below for demos and a video tutorial. If it has value to the community I will happily make it available but it is a combination of theme and code so does not easily fit in either area.