Theme development

G'day,

I'm relatively new to Drupal and have been working with it for a week. My problem is the overwhelming number of modules, options and configuration methods. Its hard trying to find the modules that can do the jobs I need for my site. I've tried searching for what I need but most of the time I end up going around in circles.

The project I'm working on is a product information site which will be able to list products under different categories as well as under their uses so users can either look for a product by its type or by its use.

I have a few problems I need to solve which will require either modules being installed or changes to the theme's layout and CSS:

* How would I go about having a different layouts for the home page and node pages (like on The Onion)? Is it possible to tell the difference between the home page and a node page in page.tpl.php?

* Is there an easy way to theme a taxonomy list of nodes to display only a thumbnail, a title and a very short description (not neccessarily the first two paragraphs of the node content), something like you find on most product pages of online stores. (currently using Image and teaser_images modules). As far as I can tell, both a taxonomy list and a node page both use the node.tlp.php file. Is there a way of telling the difference between a node being part of a list or a page on it's own?

Hey Guys,

Working on converting a theme to Drupal. In the CSS file, it references images, and the image directory is in the theme directory... but it can't seem to find it? What's the path?

mytheme/images/* <-- where my images are
url(images/blah.jpg); <-- css, can't seem to find it?

I've also tried: /images/blah.jpg, and ./images/blah.jpg

And I've set the permissions on the server to match those as in the Zen theme.

Hi guys,

Using the taxonomy module i have a few terms that apply to my content, which as we all know creates pages such as these:

http://example.com/category/term-name

which shows a list of all the nodes with this term name, Is there possibly anyway i can change the way these category pages are shown? at the moment i just ignore them and build my own view lists to show each category, but i think it would be a lot cleaner for the site workings if i could theme the category pages,

Hi guys and gals. I'm having some issues with my theme, namely trying to get it to separate the sidebar menus ul and li elements by class. Can someone tell me what's wrong with the code below:

Hi

I've just made my first Drupal theme (woohoo!!). It's not complete, but it's starting to take form :) Only problem I've found is styling all of the Drupal generated code. Does anyone know where I can find a complete list of all CSS classes and IDs used by Drupal, and if possible, the modules?

Many thanks

Hey guys, i have just installed Drupal , and i love it!!

One thing i need to do is get a template for my site going.

I have been able to change the template and upload new ones with no trouble, but i cannot change the logo icon.

I dont think it will look good but i just want to see how it goes.

This is the error im getting

* warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid/gid is 23618/23618 is not allowed to access /mounted-storage/home45c/sub007/sc32666-ENFL/www/drupal/files owned by uid/gid 99/99 in /mounted-storage/home45c/sub007/sc32666-ENFL/www/drupal/includes/file.inc on line 117.
* warning: fopen(files/.htaccess) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Success in /mounted-storage/home45c/sub007/sc32666-ENFL/www/drupal/includes/file.inc on line 117.
* Security warning: Couldn't write .htaccess file. Please create a .htaccess file in your files directory which contains the following lines:
SetHandler Drupal_Security_Do_Not_Remove_See_SA_2006_006
Options None
Options +FollowSymLinks
* warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid/gid is 23618/23618 is not allowed to access /tmp/tmp_WWakEe owned by uid/gid 99/99 in /mounted-storage/home45c/sub007/sc32666-ENFL/www/drupal/includes/file.inc on line 240.