Theme development

I just know that the answer to this question is going to be embarrassingly obvious, but after 2 days of searching, I gotta ask ...

How do I edit the front page text (node) or is the normal approach to simply create a new node and point the home page at that instead?

Two days in and really loving Drupal. Working past that initial frustrating period when it all looks a bit overwhelming until you get under the skin and producing a theme that I'm very pleased with. But ...

Hi, I'm new here. I have been browsing the forum to seek help regarding the display of Primary Links. I used Democratica as my sample template. The problem was when I used it, instead of the Primary Links displayed, they were replaced with the word "Array."

Is anyone out there patient enough to teach me or share with me the code to fix this problem? Thanks so much.

I'm wondering if any coders out there can take a look at this code and tell me if it's "safe" -- it works, but for all I know I could be using up tons of resources or something.

What it does: using the textimage module, this code auto-replaces all node titles with a fancy graphical title, and will split the title onto two lines if it exceeds a certain length. It also attemps to clean up the title a bit so the graphics are named safely in unix.

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Can somone help me (or point me to docs), how to add a 5.x version of a theme
the theme has changed fully (new files) and i have changed the name of the directory (is that allowed?)
so i dont think i need to checkout the files before

I am using totoiseCVS on windows machine

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I hope someone can help point me in the right direction. I need to put up a drupal site soon, and I very much want to use a style from CSS Zen Garden.

What I'm looking for is a Theme that outputs the same html tags as CSSZenGarden, so we could drop any CZG stylesheet into the Theme and it would work. I would think there would already be something this awesome for Drupal 5, but I have searched and can't seem to find this.

Perhaps it's in the documentation for a theme, but I certainly can't find it mentioned in the teasers on the main Themes page.