Theme development

Hey

I'm working on a new theme to a drupal site. The bases layout is like this:

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| Header                 |
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| Left        |  Right   |
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I want the parent/top-menu-items in a horizontalmenu in the header-section and the submenu-items in the right collumn.

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| [Menuitem 1] | Menuitem 2 | menuitem 3 |             |
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|                                         |                             |
| Left                                   | Submenuitem 1.1     |
|                                         | Submenuitem 1.2     |
|                                         | Submenuitem 1.3     |
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| Menuitem 1 | [ Menuitem 2 ] | menuitem 3 |           |
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|                                         |                             |
| Left                                   | Submenuitem 2.1     |
|                                         | Submenuitem 2.2     |
|                                         | Submenuitem 2.3     |
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Howdy.

I need to make the search box wider See the one in the upper right corner of this very page? It is 140 pixels wide. I need to double that. But I can't find where it is actually set at that width.

Can someone turn on a light for me so I can stop stabbing in the dark for this?

Thanks!

Hi,

I'm new to Drupal and I would like to use existing html template in Drupal. I am not the creator of this design but I have html and css knowledge (no php knowledge, but I'm willing to learn some if it what it takes)

http://img111.imageshack.us/my.php?image=16584bmt0.jpg

Can someone please recommend a way to do this or refer me to a beginners guide.

Any help would be most appreciated,

Sooki.

Let's say you go to mysite.com/blog (where all the blogs are lined up) or mysite.com/forum (the page where all forum categories are listed), you want to add a disclaimer on the top like "please don't use profanity etc"

But when you go to mysite.com/blog/topic or mysite.com/forum/categories/topic (the actual blog/forum content created by users), that disclaimer don't show up.

So how to do this? Adding a disclaimer on node-blog.tpl.php or node-forum.tpl.php only affects the actual blog/forum topics but not the front page of blog and forum.

I have created a new theme. here is the screenshot

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9800/mydrupalthemelw8.gif

Can someone suggest a nice short name for this.

THanks a lot.
tk

http://itdiscover.com

I have created a view that is broken down by node type. This was all done courtesy of the View's Theme Wizard. Now all the results are organized by node type. Great!

My problem is that the node type string that is presented by the view as a title is the machine readable name, with underscores.

I have been poking around trying to translate these into strings with spaces and title caps, but no luck yet.

Can anyone point me to a solution here?

thanks!