Theme development

I want to implement the features in this post:
New York Observer - a newspaper site
http://drupal.org/node/141187/

Hi everybody,
I am new to Drupal..I started from Drupal 5.1....I prepared my own Home page template with some horizontal menus and images in photoshop..How can i develop as same as in Drupal??

Waiting for reply

Thanks&Regards,
Ravi Kiran.T

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print_r ($node); </pre> to pull out all the variables. But I have been unable to edit them even after sucessfully retrieving them with $node->body

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I think It should be from here :