Theme development

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how to create 4 blocks inside one big content block?
Do I need to create a new theme for drupal or it is posiblle to do it in administer?

Hello i'm working over the bix theme, and i don't like the underline it show in the archive calendar links (archive module).
But i'm not able to find the code in the bix.css i would like to know if there are another css i have to check

thanks

oskar

what is the correct way to display comments?

I am trying to display comments on my front page but when i do this i only see a number that is not clickable
contents of my node.tpl.php:

 if ($is_front) {
		print $submitted.$comment; 
		}
	

i am using the default comment.tpl.php

Hello.

I have been using the Amadou theme for my website: Love In Toronto, but all of a sudden, there's something peculiar with the way that my site is functioning. This is a new anomaly which hasn't happened before and I'm not sure if it's because of some of the modules that I have installed?

1) After I'm logged in, by clicking on my logo, I all of a sudden get logged out. This doesn't happen if i click on other links though, only on the logo

I am building a theme that uses hierarchical menus. I cant seem to get it to work just using the drupal frontend.

An idea i had for doing this is to check the current path, and load a menu pre defined menu depending on the result. So id like to know what sort of function(s), and values i need to assign to load a pre existing menu to $secondary_links, from within the template files.

I am working on a module which allows drag and drop creation of menus - firefox and ie7 are not a problem. I cannot get a page to render properly on ie6. Do not know what bugs I could be triggering.. Any ideas? The demo is at: http://hyrme.com/easymenu/settings