Theme development

Hi, im pretty new to drupal. Im trying to set up a new homepage. I would like some help/suggestions how I should set it up.

Hi everybody!

I created a theme based on the Zentheme. One thing i did is to change the tab.gif file that gives a cool background to the primary links. On IE i have an error with that. Whenever i point my mouse over the primary links, the whole link-section disappears and doesn't come back, even when i put the mouse out of the primary link section. On firefox everything works as expected.

Please see the theme on http://test.mirko-haaser.de

I am looking for a function to get the total number of taxonomy terms so I can loop through them checking to see if a user has that particular taxonomy term.

Or is there another function I can call to get the users taxonomy terms?

How do I do this

http://www.dwank.com/publicprofile.php?uid=412&hid=198&iid=816

I'm been working on converting a custom website into a working theme for drupal, and I've run across a problem with the tabs. It seems as though the first tab, regardless of whether or not I'm on that tab's page, doesn't produce a link anymore. I'm sure it's something I've done with my CSS file that's ruined it, but I can't figure out what. Maybe someone more familiar with Drupal could see my problem, so I'm posting the CSS file to see if anyone's got some insight. (The website is still in development, so it's only active on my computer.)


@import "reset.css";

body{
font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Palatino, serif;
background:#330000 url(images/bgtexture.png) no-repeat top left;
font-size:0.8em;
color:#ffffff;
font-weight:normal;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

/*title*/

#pageHeader {
position:absolute;
left:26px;
top:55px;
height:940px;
background:url(images/bgtexture2.png) no-repeat bottom right;
z-index:10;
}

#quickSummary{
font-size:0.8em;
overflow:hidden;
position:absolute;
left:590px;
top:140px;
height:140px;
text-align:center;
width:230px;
z-index:3;
}

#quickSummary a{ text-transform:uppercase; }

#sidebars{
position:absolute;
top:125px;
left:800px;
width:150px;
text-align:left;
font-size:0.85em;
}

/*links column*/

#linkList{
position:absolute;
top:123px;

I know this may be obvious, but I am new to Drupal and CSS. I need to be able to apply a specific style to the "recent comments" block that I have placed in the right hand column. I want this style to be slightly different from the general style of the right hand column.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

Thanks