Theme development

I have the following in my style.css file to hide bullets in a specific view.

.view-content-home-image ul
{
    list-style: none;
    margin-left: -1em;
    padding-left: 5px;
    text-indent: -1em;
}

This works in Internet explorer 6 and 7 but in Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 it displays a bullet over the first letter of the list item.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Is there a way to differentiate the latest post in the loop found in the node.tpl? I was thinking of using the $node->nid variable but I'm not exactly sure how to go about doing this.

Ultimately I want the latest entry to have about 2 paragraphs of the actual post while the next 3 entries to have about 2 sentences show in the excerpt. I have found the drupalicious_summarise snippet of use in cutting down the lengths but am having trouble figuring out how to apply two different excerpt lengths to the posts in an automated fashion.

Any help is much appreciate.

I hope to get some help on how to start. I've been reading some stuff about cck, views (drives me crazy) and phptemplate but I need some help. I want my frontpage to be some kind of bumperpage with the latest blogs, articles, photos etc. And the content of one specific story should be displayed. So no real teasers, just links..

When you click a link you should see the complete node.

rough sketch of frontpage:
http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=frontza7.png

My problem is that the sidebar backgrounds are not showing up right. In IE6 and Firefox they are fine, but in IE7 it just seems it's not reading the css right. Check out skatemidwest.com and let me know what you think.

Thanks

I have installed drupal successfully and chosen a nice theme however i uploaded a logo but the size of it is fixed. I cannot find where it has been resized / fixed. I even went into page.tpl.php and manually put the path into the tag and it still is not resizing to the size of my image. I have checked the stylesheet and no image size is specified??

I created 2 (primary?) menus. One is named menu_LEFT and the other is named menu_RIGHT. I want to place them in 2 separate divs. What is the proper syntax to pull links into the HTML page? Presently I'm using:

<?php if (isset($primary_links)) { ?>
      					<div id="menu">
    					<?php print theme('menu_links', $primary_links); ?>
      					</div>
   						<?php } ?> 

But that only brings in the menu_RIGHT links.

Thanks for any help! I'm a PHP newbie.