Theme development

With lots of help, I'm working my way through customizing the Amadou theme while fumbling through css and php. After being shown how to create doublewide columns (http://drupal.org/node/172494), I'm looking to put a border around both the top and bottom doublewide sidebars (see very rough example here: http://theunabridged.com/Insider/), but not the single-column left and right sidebars.

Any suggestions?

Hi All,
Basically, I have a navigational menu with links that can be expanded to show child (or sub) links. Aesthetically, I was wondering if it was possible to have it so that when the link was expanded, the expanded item didn't float out to the right (forming a sort of "tree"). I've attempted to play around with the css, but at most I've been able to move the parent link, which also moved the expanded link to attempt to line it up at the side of the page. What this then did was line the expanded up at the side of the page, but cause the parent to be floating way to far to left, ending up on the outside of the page.

For a reference, I have posted an image of the problem that is occuring when the expanded is simply floating to the right.

http://www.freewebs.com/jrgirard/expandedchildtree.png
(the red lines are to illistrate how it is supposed to be vertically aligned)

I've checked the code for conflicts, but couldn't seem to find any. I also checked the system.css file with no luck either. Below, is also the css code for the nav menu.

ul.menu {

}

ul.menu li.expanded, ul.menu li.collapsed, ul.menu li.leaf {

width: 133px;
height: 54px;

}
ul.menu li a {
display: inline;

}

ul.menu li.expanded {
background-image: url(navtab.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
list-style: none;
display: block;
margin-left:-16px;

If you visit my site:

http://mypetdonkey.com/

You can see that under the main nav bar at the top there is a white line? When I designed the plain HTML layout the line wasn't there, but since theming it into Drupal it has suddenly appeared?!

I've tried quite a lot of things to get rid of it but I can' t think of anymore ideas so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas what it could possibly be?

Hi,

I'd like to know how to edit the whole website so i don't have to use the drupal custom css stylesheet. When creating a website layout I'd like to configure the whole site so i can use my own css rules instead of having to make the css rules it has and changing it that way.

For example:

Hi,

I'd like to know how to edit the whole website so i don't have to use the drupal custom css stylesheet. When creating a website layout I'd like to configure the whole site so i can use my own css rules instead of having to make the css rules it has and changing it that way.

For example:

I'm trying to put a table of images with some rollovers into my header instead of the standard single logo image. I've got it working in html and css here (I hope): http://www.thelostworkshop.com/new_site/headersample/headersample.html.

When I put the html into the page.php.tpl file, the table of images didn't show up. Then I tried just putting one image into it with html and that didn't show up either!! Is there some trick to making your html work in these files?