Theme development

My goal seems simple: just divide the frontpage so that the different promoted-to-front nodes are groups by content type in various columns. This question may be really basic, but I haven't been able to find the answer yet in either the Apress Drupal book or here on Drupal.org. I want to create a frontpage that is more complex than the rest of my Drupal site. I will have 3 columns (menu will be horizontal instead of vertical) and I want each to have a different type of content.

Hi,

I'm trying to configure menu items for some of our site modules and we are using "Aberdeen-liquid" theme. But when we create secondary links, those are not shown at all. Here is an example. When i use different theme (push button), i see the Secondary links menu item. Is it an issue on "Aberdeen-liquid" theme?

Classifieds Ads module:
Primary Link Menu Item: Classified Ads
Path: ed-classified
Expanded: Yes
Parent item: primary links

please tell me the way of changing the theme of every individual page

How can I go about getting the authors name of a node to become available to be used in the page.tpl.php file? Do I get to it from template.php and then just call a function making the returned data from the variable = to some variable that I will use in the page.tpl.php?

hey, I'm new to drupal and I'm trying to figure this out.

<?php print theme('menu_links', $primary_links); ?>

returns a list wrapped in a ul class called "list-menu".

How can I intercept the HTML that is being returned and change the ul class?

Thanks,
- Patrick

How can I adjust the width of Aurora theme? I played around with the layout.css but nothing can be done. Please help
thanks