Theme development

i am using garmond theme, can somebody help me removing the Date icon (along with date) displayed on the front page.

Thank you.

Hello

I'm redesigning a website, and after coming up with the new layout, we now want to put it into practice.

I've been using Drupal for some time now, so I would like to adapt this design to a Drupal theme.
I have experience in PHP and HTML/CSS, but never did any hacking in drupal themes (except changing some basic stuff).
My question to you is, should I start from scratch creating a theme or should I pick one that is similar and try to adapt it bit by bit?

Is the two colomn content page like http://drupal.org/contribute build by hand or code?

I have to rebuild the site http://www.acupunctuur-groningen.nl/ which is hard coded html and i want to do it by configuration.

These two sites are different in the node/cell height variation. http://drupal.org/contribute is column orientated

hello everybody
when i use firefox to browse my website i see the top part not showing correctly (see it yourself www.2knowmyself.com

which line should i change in style.css to fix this?
thanks alot

I have avatars set to appear in comments and nodes. However they appear on the first line, and the text appears below them. How can I get the avatars to appear on the left of the first line - and the text for the comment or node appear to the right of the avatar? groups.drupal.org has it set up this way.

I'm using the aurora theme if that matters. I'm not a coder and hope there is a solution to this that may only require some lines to be modified in my css files.

How do you display the users username? I mean in page.tpl.php, is there a variable, or some way of displaying the username? I just want to add the users' username to a static part of the page using an if statement...so I can check if they are loggged in, then display it if they are.