Theme development

From the handbook:
http://drupal.org/node/11774
If you want to start from scratch, there are several ways to go. If you're not a programmer, then the easiest solution is to use one of the template engines. By default, Drupal 4.6 and previous versions comes with the XTemplate theme engine, which requires you to create an (X)HTML skeleton with special markers. See the XTemplate documentation for more info. As of Drupal 4.7 PHPTemplate changes to the default theme engine and XTemplate becomes a contributed theme engine.

I have a question / problem...

I have Drupal 5 working to serve multiple sites based on domain. Each site is basically the same, and uses the same theme, however I want to customize content based on variables contained in the site's settings.php file.

For example:
If the variable $cover_photo contained in each settings.php file contains the name of a photo to display, I can use the same template, but display a different front page for each site.

site1.com
$cover_photo = site1.jpg

site2.com
$cover_photo = site1.jpg

I am new to Drupal and am very excited to learn of such an exotic product. I started down this path trying to master ASP.NET and use DotNetNuke for my adventure.

I've got about 20+ domains that deal with all manner of issues. These will all need the standard tools such as forums, chat, email advertising - marketing, security, blogs, and whatever is popular in community based product/service portals.

Hi folks,

is it possible / does anywhere exist a module to get following idea to work?

I would like to add an article usually with a headline entered into a textfield. After saving, a picture is generated that is displayed instead of the simple text. I saw this at http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=195/195.css and wished something similar for my page, too.

Anyone an idea?

Regards,
Eulinky!

i am no web designer...my specialty is content and i defer to the designers for the pretties. :)

Hi.

How can I remove the uppermost margin from Garland's header? By default it's about 5px, but I modified style.css as follows:

#header-region {
  /*min-height: 1em;*/
  background: #d2e6f3 url(images/bg-navigation.png) repeat-x 50% 100%;
  height: 0px;
}

This almost did the trick. However, there's still a white line of 1px before the actual "blue header". How can I get rid of that? Any ideas?