Theme development

I'm trying to create two types of dynamic landing pages for a site using panels and views. My problem is that the current model I have in my head would require me to create dozens of views and dozens of panels for each taxonomy/term's landing page. What I'd like to be able to do is have a few views within a few panels that draw their content from different taxonomy/terms based on URL. Any advice on the situation would be helpful.

Example:
[vocab]/(term)

I was moving my site from a subdirectory to the main directory. I had my site working fine in the subdirectory...clean urls and everything...but when I decided to move it to the main directory everything went wrong. I changed the $base_url in the setting.php. But my urls didn't work.....so I turned off clean urls but now I can't turn it back on...the site works ok but when I try to click the "Run the clean URL test" button my browser can't find the page. Then I found out that I didn't have a .htaccess file and so I put that back.....but nothing changed.

Greetings. I have installed and have been playing with Drupal 5.0, customizing one of the included themes to match the look I want, and of course I notice that most of the 'size' or 'length' designators in the CSS files are expressed as 'em' or 'ex'. I don't know if I should feel like a dummy or what, but what do those mean? I have always used px for everything except font-size, in which I usually use pt because I know them best, although I have noted from some publication that font-size works best across platforms (i.e., on the mac too) if expressed at px rather than pt.

New to the game, the first periodyou could say. I see there are about 15-20 themes on the drupal.org site, is that it or are there other themes that can be downloaded and implemented somewhere else? Or are you able to customize them to look completely diiferent? Haven't installed Drupal yet...

thanks

brunning

just a quick question... im am just playing around and trying to get familiar with the way drupal works

but what could be the reason for the footer becoming part of the "story" i have posted?

http://74.140.195.86

then you click "read more" and it looks fine
http://74.140.195.86/?q=node/8

any ideas?

Hello! Is there anyway to theme aggregator and book nodes through *.tpl.php files other than node.tpl.php? I mean, if I create a node-aggregator.tpl.php or node-book.tpl.php will it work?

Thank you!