Theme development

hi, in new here and looking for some help

i got the module "front page" instaled in my drupal 5.2

i got two problems to solve:

1) i got the front page html code configured to show ONLY a jpg image. how to do the jpg fit exactly the window, with out white border?

2) for the anonymous user, i want to show only the background image and the left column, without anymore

some help here, please... ?

Hi Guys

I have just installed Drupal for the first time and have been integrating it into my own theme but am having some strange issues with the way that some of the items display on the various pages.

E.G.
On the "CREATE CONTENT" pages, there is a big gap between the top of the page, between where the heading is and where the content box starts, this gap is usually the height of the left side menu. However when the content is previewed or viewed normally it goes right to the top.

hi i downloaded a 3rd party theme called manuscript. it displays my contents with a blueish background. see below

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/4510/havetu7.jpg

but i know that there r parts of the theme that displays the content without a blueish background example some of the administration page like the one below does not have the background. i would like to get rid of the blueish background for my content.

I have several regions on my frontpage of my magazine site. I have a headline story at the top that uses a larger font for the title and a larger image. Other regions contain other articles with a smaller title font and image.

I would like to be able to "move" my headline story to another region when I replace it with a new headline story. I need to control the title format and image size (or image field used) based on the region in which the node appears. I thought if I could reference the block title within the node template, I could vary the formatting.

http://drupal.org/project/deco

What a nice theme.
I appreciate the attention to detail.. all the pages seem well accounted for.

Any tips or example site on modding this design?

I saw on the screenshot that it has the 2 columns on the right side.

How can I modify the template to display like that?

Hi, I am a total newbie to Drupal. I am using version 5.2 right now, and trying to create a theme from scratch. I just want to see if I can learn better this way to understand the whole picture of theming. Please forgive me if my question is already asked or sounding stupid.