Theme development

I am designing a new theme for my website and am interested in contributing a generic version of it. It involves sytylized blocks with a variety of motifs and color schemes. I want to provide certain options to users of the theme. I currently have in the block.tpl.php file:

$columns = '1'; // 1 = right, 2 = left, 3 = both
$color = 'white'; //white, red, pink, etc.

Then I have logic that looks for these and adds the apprpriate class name in the HTML code. It's not a big deal for a user to open up the one file and change a couple values. Great...

This is a specific question, but hopefully the answer will help me better understand how themes work...

I'm extending push_button...no reason, really, except it's what I started with when loading Drupal and now I'm experimenting....how do I get rid of those button icons (the square with slanted arrow) that appear in every subhead?

I am in the process of evaluating Drupal as a solution for several of our corporate web sites. However, I have not yet had the time or mental power to get my brain around wrapping Drupal with our site template to see how content would be edited. The attempts I have made have resulted in wonky layouts of the admin areas of Drupal.

Hi all,

I'm running drupal 4.74. The comments below refer to the friends electric theme, and its css.

First, I found on my site that Opera (9.10) would display the right hand blocks underneath the other columns. It may well have been something I did that broke this, but for the record you can fix it by changing margin-left of #sidebar-right from -201px to -202px.

I'd like to switch a header image depending on the language and with a url and the base path. So, I'm using the code from here: Switching HTML based on active i18n language

So far, I have this, but the url results with two forward slashes before "isp":

I've had a bit of a search on this subject and what I've found seems to be either very out of date or didn't work.

I'm building a site that relies heavily on Views module. I want to be able to override the html the views generate using template.php and custom .tpl.php files on a per View basis.

Has anyone managed this in Drupal 5? If so would you be so kind as to post a step by step to achieving this?

Thanks