Theme development

I've just installed Drupal to replace an old website I have maintained more conventionally. I'm currently trying to install a new theme I've downloaded (.tar.gz file suffix), into the preset themes already available on the admin interface. Unfortunately I cannot find such basic information anywhere! Any ideas for a shtoopid old fashioned web junky?...LOL

I've just installed drupal as an alternative to an old website that I created. I've downloaded a theme that I wanted to use with the installation, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to install the new theme?!!

The theme I downloaded has a .tar.gz suffix, and I need to know how to associate it with the installation. I've found the themes section on the admin pages, but cannot find any link that allows new themes to be added to the factory preset list.

Please help, and forgive my Drupal blindness. HTML I can handle....but this?? :)

Many thanks,

Hi

I'm moving our current site over to Drupal. The site is accessed by teachers all over the world and some teachers, especailly those in developing countires, still have monitors at 800x600 res - a quick look at the stats for access shows it's about 15% of users.

The original site was fixed width at 800x600. Our new design company want to use a wider fixed resolution of 920px for the new design, as it uses 3 columns and they feel 800 res is too cramped. I'm worried about how this will effect these users still on older monitors as my remit is to cater to all users, including those in developing countries. It's been suggested by my manager that we use a fixed width of 800 for the new drupal site rather than go with the 920 width the design company want to use.

After reading up a bit on themes I'm thinking of suggesting to the design company and my manager that we investigate using a theme with a fluid width, perhaps limiting the minimum size to 720px so that we cater for all resolutions.

My only concern is that when we design the site this might make things difficult. The site might look good at the higher resolution with enough space to display the text in the columns well but look cramped for those users with the lower res. If we design site to look good for lower res then will it look bad in higher res.

should i just copy node.tpl.php to node-birthdays.tpl.php and customize it from there? would this work?

thanks in advance

zero

I am new to drupal and am not sure if this is the right place to post this question. I am using a modified zen theme and would like to replace the drupal search with a google search in the top right hand side of the page ie. in the header to the right of the site name. I have added the google co-op CSE module and I have tried placing it in the header block but this puts it below the actual head region ie. below the logo. I am not sure if I should be using css to move it into the right position or do I need to modify the page.tpl file?

Hi! We are creating a site and we construct a advanced search with the view module.
The problem isn't theme the results or something.

Our problem is the big wide table generated with input forms(filters) generated by the module.

Our mission is theme this and fit the layout.

Could be as table but with more than one row to break some many fields on cells.
Another problem is that the whole input form doesn't have any markup to use css. The id's assigned are the same from many other views created on the site.